Quavering musical effect

• Pulsating musical effect
• Wavy tonal quality overdone by a lot of "American Idol" hopefuls
• First name in "The Godfather"
• Oscillatory effect
• Fiddle not half inspiring difficult child - that's the effect of music!
• Singer's wavering tone

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861 (adv.), 1870 (n.), "tremulous effect in music," from Italian vibrato , from Latin vibratus , past participle of vibrare "to vibrate" (see vibrate ).\n\nStrictly, the vibrato is distinct from the tremolo , in that the latter involves a perceptible variation ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Vibrato " ( Hangul : 떨려요; RR : tteollyeoyo ) is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Stellar and served as their sixth digital single. It was released on July 20, 2015 by The Entertainment Pascal and distributed by CJ E&M. It was written and produced ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Characteristically White's opulent bass comes with a pronounced vibrato which tends to get exaggerated on disc. ▪ He whistles with a beautiful, steady vibrato . ▪ In their accompaniments, the strings could have contributed greater ...