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Tremolo

noun

(music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones.

Vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one.

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"Tremolo" Quotes from Famous Books

... plays while he sings "Deh Vieni." Filomena, knowing nothing about Mozart, used her mandoline for the delivery of a melody which she performed with great skill, though it was but a silly tune and sounded sillier than it was because of the irritating tremolo. It was like her embroidery—very well done but not worth doing. She had been taught the mandoline by the nuns, who had also taught her needlework. I expected the corporal to accompany her on the guitar; he admitted that he ...

— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones

... alternately to his horse as it sucked in and out of the mud and to a woman on the plank walk. She had on a hat with velvet and ostrich plumes, a black frock, a side bag with a lace handkerchief. She was not young and she wore spectacles; but there was something nervous about her step, a slight tremolo as she responded to the drayman, which suggested an adventure or the hope of it. The boardwalk, leading inevitably to the mill, announced our common purpose and ...

— The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls • Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst

Words linked to "Tremolo" : quivering, vibration, trembling, music, quiver, shakiness, shaking, palpitation, vibrato