Diva's device

Usage examples of tremolo.

Stigelli was also one of the same style of singers at that time and I heard them both in grand opera and there was never a tremolo in either of their voices but perfect art in messa di voce, Bel Canto singing.

Cygnans did, of course, but he did the best he could, first arpeggiating it, then alternating it in a rapid tremolo.

She put her hands to Ceis, popped off a harmonic that stung the ears even of the veteran rockers, and jerked up on the tremolo bar.

On the last verse he broke into a tremolo that soared above the music in a descant, embellished it with sly glissandos, rests and ritardandos, climbed ambitiously towards the highest and thinnest pitch of the instrument, and then fell back deliciously upon the sonorous middle range of the third and second strings.

The camera Had moved in for a closeup, the white teeth, tremolo of tongue, effortful throat, vast enunciations of the lips.

He produced three simple chords to accustom his fingers to the reduced space of a mandolin's fretboard, and then he cascaded down a scale at a rapid tremolo.

His head was bent over the long fretboard, eyes closed, as he produced ululating tremolos with a complicated bow.

He knew cradle songs and fishing songs, classical tunes and new compositions by Theodorakis, Xarhakos, Markopoulos, and Hadjidakis, and he executed all of them with perfect tremolos and extraordinary syncopated improvisations that were inclined to prevent his audience from dancing because it was even better to listen.

There were sudden, flashing tremolos at the beginning of bars, and places where the music hesitated without losing its tempo, or sustained the same speed despite appearing to halve or double it.

There were tremolos on the strings and ominous pronouncements by the trombones and trumpets… Violins… Then a repetition of the theme by cellos and woodwinds.