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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

... the critic had not been five years in America, for, says he, Signora Borghese was not worthy to tie the shoes of Malibran, Pedrotti, Fanti, Garadori, or Mrs. Wood, the last two of whom had sung in English opera. Her chief defect seems to have been the tremolo—that vice toward which the American critics of to-day are more intolerant than those of any other people, as they are toward the sister vice of a faulty intonation. Mr. White talks sensibly on the subject in ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... was as lame in effect as it was rantingly emotional. He liked to hear himself talk, and his stock in trade as a criminal lawyer consisted mainly of perfervid appeals to the sympathies of his juries. Here, he pleaded, with the tremolo stop pulled all the way out, was a young man whose entire future would be blasted—and all that sort of thing. It hadn't the slightest effect upon the group of stolid hill farmers and laborers in the box who sat and ...

— Branded • Francis Lynde

... timbre is unpleasant, the production faulty and the intonation far from pure. Admitting that Mr. LLOYD GEORGE has a certain flexibility and facility common to all Welsh singers, the critic condemns his habit of resorting to an emotional tremolo which frequently degenerates into a mere "wobble." The PREMIER, he continues, shows agility and spirit in florid passages, but his declamation lacks dignity and his articulation is often indistinct. As a pianist ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920 • Various

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