How to Use arpeggio in a Sentence

arpeggio

noun

• The guitarist warmed up with a few simple arpeggios.
• Step right this way, through the glittering synth arpeggio and the moody breakbeat.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022
• Now the frenzied chords and blizzard of arpeggios in Chopin’s Prolinase are a piece of cake to play.
  — R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2018
• To actually construct an arpeggio or a response to the call of the singer.
  — Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2022
• In the second, the strings mostly took over the arpeggios, holding them to a statelier tempo, and the elements inspired by the chants came more to the fore.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2018
• The end of the second movement closes with a super-soft arpeggio that sits on a suspension.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The brothers mix up the approach, with one anchoring the rhythm with a gentle arpeggio or bass-like melody, keeping time with a soft tap on the strings, while the other carries the main melody.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 28 Oct. 2022
• Waves of arpeggios that crash resoundingly from the opening chord, a near-flood of instant feelings.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 15 Jan. 2018
• In the first movement, the piano purveyed rippling arpeggios, a Glassian trademark, while the strings worked through melodic figures.
  — New York Times, 13 May 2018
• With soft strumming bass rhythms and waves of an acoustic arpeggio, Okereke’s calming voice on this track has never sounded so crystal clear.
  — Paris Close, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2017
• During a final episode the music becomes like a dance for Apu, all swirling arpeggios, fractured rhythms and myriad shadings.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 23 July 2017
• Leading with twinkling bolero arpeggio, the mariacheño trailblazer and Argentine pop singer matched hearts as their voices collided to make one of the sweetest of love songs of the year so far.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2023
• Clarinets gurgle in arpeggios, because that’s what clarinets do.
  — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2017
• These pages are full of finger exercises, arpeggios of thought and perception.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• The songs are strictly post-punk with intricate guitar parts that toggle between heavy riffs and arpeggios, high-energy drums, and low-key vocal hooks.
  — Aaron Carnes, sacbee, 1 June 2018
• The waves rolling into the shore make cascades of sound, sometimes regular rhythms and sometimes duples and triples and offbeat syncopations—all set against the arpeggios and glissandos of the birds.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Already a skilled player, Anderson had no idea what technique Van Halen was using to achieve those orbiting arpeggios.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 8 Jan. 2020
• This was aided by Nelsons’s crisp conducting and the occasional arpeggio from a harpsichord in the recitatives.
  — Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
• Impressionistic string arpeggios, along with other rapid figures, moody thick chords and glissandi pervade much of the piece.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• The timbres that emerged were thoroughly bewitching: an F-sharp-minor arpeggio figure in the Andantino sounded as if it were being played by a cello and a bassoon in unison.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• During each phase, the musicians would run through scales and arpeggios at varying volumes and tempos, performing dozens of intonations of every note.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, Popular Science, 10 Jan. 2020
• Each took a stumble here and there and the slow movement sounded tenuous, but their arpeggios in vigorous harmony and triumphant finale were more memorable.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• Passard renamed his new venture, Arpège, the French word for arpeggio, a name that like the establishment’s original name (which means orchestra en francais) pays tribute to his second love: music.
  — Mary Squillace, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
• Taking up more than half of the remix’s ten-minute length, the breakdown is an extended trance induction, its arpeggios meditative and steadily increasing their speed upwards into the heavens.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• Their groove machine churns out powerful hooks, crisp keyboard arpeggios, and punchy bass lines reminiscent of their eighties predecessors New Order and Soft Cell.
  — The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
• In the third piece, over a softly churning piano line — Lucas Debargue was her subtle partner — Ms. Jansen played flowing arpeggios on glassy harmonics, giving the effect of a sprite dancing on the lip of a simmering volcano.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Fielding a request to do a spontaneous piece, Wheaton starts with an up-tempo, plinking line of notes, adds a brisk allegro melody that plays in syncopation against it, and finally pipes in a series of cascading arpeggios.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• The first begins as a busy arpeggio study, with melodic strands that move gradually into focus, and shifting levels of tension and drama as the arpeggiation gives way to more finely focused elements.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2021
• All the hammering octaves and glittering runs and arpeggios were delivered without excessive showmanship, and in perfect taste.
  — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 25 Jan. 2017
• Those études, from the early 1990s, may be aspirational in technique, but they are assured in craft: portals into Glass’s world of whirling arpeggios, shocking rhythmic and harmonic turns, and meditative discipline.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024