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Definition: Tremolo |
TremoloNoun1. (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones. 2. Vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tremolo" was first used: 1801. (references) |
Etymology: Tremolo \Tre"mo*lo\, noun. [Italian Compare to Tremulous.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Tremolo |
| English words defined with "tremolo": voix celeste, vox angelica. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tremolo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (aspen), German (tremolo, trill), Italian (tremolo), Romanian (quaver), Serbo-Croatian (tremolo). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tremolo is also a short name for Tremolo bridge, a part of an electric guitar that can be used to create a vibrato pitch-variation effect. In the electric guitar terms, vibrato often refers to a rapid repetetive increase and decrease in volume, similar to the first meaning of tremolo as defined above. This opposite nameing of vibrato and tremolo was made popular by the products of the Fender Musical Instrument Corporation and has since become the norm in the nomenclature of players of electric guitar.
Tremolo is the rapid repetition of one note in music or a rapid alternation between two or more notes. It is sometimes called tremolando, especially when referring to a rapid repition on a bowed string instrument, one of the most commonly seen uses of the technique. Tremolo on a violin or similar instrument is sometimes combined with playing sul ponticello (over the bridge of the instrument), which gives a thin and reedy effect, often perceived to be "ghostly."
Another common use of the technique on one note is in the playing of the mandolin. Once a mandolin string is plucked, the note decays very rapidly, and by playing the same note many times very rapidly, the illusion of a sustained note can be created.
Tremolo on two or more notes is most frequently seen on the piano or other keyboard instruments. The composer Franz Liszt often calls for the technique to be used in his piano pieces. When used on the piano, tremolo can create a seemingly louder and larger sound, which can be sustained indefinitely. Historically, its use on keyboard instruments can be traced back to a time before the invention of the piano when harpsichords and similar instruments such as the spinet were standard. These instruments could not sustain notes for nearly as long as a modern piano, and so tremolo was used to simulate a longer sustain, as well as being used as an independent effect.
See also: trill, musical terminology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tremolo."
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| "Tremolo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tremolo" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 104 | 31,955 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tremolo": tremolo-picked. | |
Ending with "tremolo": non-tremolo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tremolo | 31 | schaller tremolo | 3 |
kahler tremolo | 25 | picking tremolo | 3 |
floyd rose tremolo | 19 | part tremolo | 3 |
guitar tremolo | 17 | les paul tremolo | 3 |
tremolo wilkinson | 9 | ibanez tremolo | 3 |
bridge guitar tremolo | 6 | arm tremolo | 2 |
floyd rose tremolo system | 6 | les paul schaller tremolo | 2 |
bridge tremolo | 5 | routing tremolo | 2 |
bigsby tremolo | 5 | stratocaster tremolo | 2 |
bass tremolo | 4 | pedal tremolo | 2 |
harmonica tremolo | 4 | system tremolo | 2 |
bar tremolo | 4 | screw tremolo | 2 |
kahler part tremolo | 3 | hipshot tremolo | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tremolo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dridhje (didder, dither, fibrillation, flicker, flickering, flutter, jarring, jerk, palpitation, pulse, quake, quiver, shake, shaking, shiver, shudder, throb, tremble, trembling, tremor, twitch, vibrancy, vibration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إهتزاز (pitch, quiver, rock, shaking, shudder, thrill, trembling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тремоло (judder, quaver, trill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | trémolo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tremolo (trill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τρέμολο, τρομώδησ ήχοσ (twang). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טרמולו, רע"ו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tremoló (tremulant, tremulous, wabble, wobble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tremolo (aspen, European aspen, poplar quaking aspen, Swedish aspen, trembling poplar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trade-off, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, tread, trekker, trench coat, trenching, troubadour, very good). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トレモロ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | crie-chiaull, craayn (ague, dithering, shuddering, trembling, wobble, wobble of singer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emolotray trêmulo (aspen, doddering, doddery, niddle-noddle, quaking, quaky, shaky, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremulant, tremulous, unsteady). (various references) тремоло. (various references) treperav zvuk, tremolo. (various references) trémolo (flicker, flutter). (various references) titreklik (shakiness, vibrancy). (various references) тремоло. (various references) crychlais (trill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tremulus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tremolo": tremolos. (additional references) | |
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"Tremolo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cremello, Romolo, termiol, Tregole, Treholt, Tremadoc, Tremella, Tremellan, Tremellen, tremelo, Tremoille, Tremolat, Tremoli, Tremolux, tremoto, Tribolo, Trimotor, Twemlow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tremolo" (pronounced 'Tre"mo*lo'): Adelantadillo, Apollo, Armadillo, Bilalo, Blanquillo, Bolo, Brocatello, Bummalo, Caballo, Cello, Cembalo, Cephalo, Colocolo, Coyotillo, Crotalo, Flo, hello, hullo, LO, Mabolo, Matajuelo, morello, Noctambulo, Obolo, Orlo, Ovolo, Palo, Paolo, Peccadillo, Pergolo, Piloncillo, Pimpillo, Pomelo, Pueblo, Punchinello, Puntello, Pupelo, Saltarello, silo, tangelo, tupelo, Vanglo, Vespillo, Violoncello, Zufolo. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-m-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: looter, merlot, molter, mooter, retool, tooler. | |
-2 letters: metro, molto, morel, motel, motor, romeo. | |
-3 letters: loom, loot, lore, melt, merl, mole, molt, mool, moor, moot, more, mort, mote, oleo, omer, orle, role, room, root, rote, rotl, roto, term, tole, tome, tool, toom, tore, toro. | |
-4 letters: elm, let, loo, lot, mel, met, mol, moo, mor, mot. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-m-o-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: tremolos. | |
+2 letters: bolometer, lowermost, mellotron, metrology, motorless, toolmaker. | |
+3 letters: bolometers, bolometric, coulometer, coulometry, meliorator, mellotrons, metropolis, motorcycle, mythologer, promotable, protonemal, protoxylem, tomfoolery, toolmakers. | |
+4 letters: ameliorator, bloodstream, colorimeter, colorimetry, comfortable, comfortless, comptroller, controlment, coulometers, coulometric, demodulator, dermatology, electroform, fluorometer, fluorometry, footlambert, lepromatous, melioration, meliorators, meteoroidal, meteorology, metrologies, metrologist, monoculture, moonlighter, motorcycled, motorcycles, mythologers, nomenclator, nontemporal, protophloem, protoxylems, terminology, troublesome. | |
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