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Tension is frequently generated through the use of overlapping trills, tremolos, glissandi, and scalar figures within textures of g radually increasing density and volume.
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Synthesizing timbre tremolos and flutter tonguing on wind instruments.
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Mostly focusing on pizzicato, it includes examples oftremolo, trills, glissandos and harmonics.
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In the previous section, we listed some of the ways that a musical tone can be manipulated, such as vibrato,tremolo, dynamics and so on.
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The performers play tremolos on three identical drums with changing dynamic envelopes, crescendo- decrescendo.
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Some of the gestures were mapped to control lowlevel musical aspects such as the frequency of vibrato or the amplitude oftremolo.
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The style of singing opera was directly related to the style of singing of vaudeville, operetta, and musical comedy, so the ubiquitoustremolodid not trouble contemporary ears.
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Instead of concluding with a ritornello, however, the movement ends with a flashy coda that extends thetremolofiguration of the last two episodes to all three parts.
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The still centre of the piece was 'snowfall on ashes', as caressing, feathery stringtremoloharmonics traced a patina of frost on which the soloist skated nervously.
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We experience the storm happening around us because we have all been caught in rainstorms (rather than in front of us with double basses andtremolostrings merely imitating thunder).
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In the process of arriving at that intact version of the tune, fragments drift through the instrumental fabric, coming in and out of focus, surrounded by tremolos and directionless harmonies.
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The strong pluckings and tremolos of the mandolin-banjos (when the accordions are not playing their solo parts, for example) give the piece a flavour of their own.
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The orchestra transcribes this process by resolving from dominant to tonic at 'fiihlt' (felt) amid 'shivering' string tremolos and the 'mirroring' of a lyrical motif among several solo instruments.
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In accordions and related instruments,tremoloby amplitude modulation is accomplished through intermodulation between two or more reeds slightly out of tune with each other.
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It continues in sixths, octaves, and tenths, accompanied by trills and tremolos.
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