Galloping synths compete with arching arpeggios at a rollicking tempo.
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It's got sequenced drums, nimble piano arpeggios, big dynamic shifts.
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Whirling arpeggios set it into frantic motion, careening towards a precipice.
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The song's trademark keyboard arpeggios chime in the background. Turnarounds. Dunks.
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She creates tightly wound arpeggios that are just as quickly deconstructed.
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He dispatched bursts of arpeggios and spiraling figures with virtuosic élan.
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These pages are full of finger exercises, arpeggios of thought and perception.
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Do you want guitars playing both acoustic arpeggios and palm-muted funk leads?
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Skittering synth arpeggios, moaning synth pads and looming, dissonant sub bass colour his beats.
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Soundtracked by holymachine's hypnotic synth arpeggios, Aquiet attempts to visually conjure our fragmented realities.
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Some nice, atmospheric arpeggios without a melody might be what people want at home.
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Eventually the motion of arpeggios vanishes to leave behind a sustained, suspensefully unresolved coda. J.P.
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Later, the instruments broke into cascading, manic arpeggios and obsessive swirls of hyper-fast notes.
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When splashes of watery arpeggios break out, the sound is milky but also wonderfully scintillating.
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Wind movements were animated by eddies of rippling arpeggios enveloped in placid streams of fused voices.
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"Eigengrau" crushes together trance arpeggios, splatter-painted rapping, and a spectral chorus into a dizzy blur.
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His sound, with its flowing arpeggios and churning rhythms, has remained easily identifiable through the decades.
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Madeon's prismatic synth runs and dial-tone arpeggios only add further color to the super-saturated track.
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Mr. Glass, the master of musical Minimalism, is known for the precision of his endlessly undulating arpeggios.
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Sopranos filled the restaurant with arpeggios as customers nibbled dumplings, each singer sidestepping busboys with steaming platters.
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The piano enters with a restless theme in thick chords played over tumultuous bursts of jagged arpeggios.
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Once in a while, you'll hear him dropping in a darkened harmony or playing swirling, chaotic arpeggios.
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Much like in Good Time, Lopatin arranges his synths in skittering arpeggios and lyrical, piercing lead melodies.
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Appearing for just under one solitary minute, those undulating, analog arpeggios triggered fervor across my social media feed.
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As I spoke, the basses and cellos were still rumbling the evocative arpeggios of Wagner's first 136 bars.
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Undertones of the blues crop up briefly, often tossed into an impressionist thicket of arpeggios and wandering lines.
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"Vortex" begins with an insectoid fury of arpeggios, and a subsequent piano solo borders on hyperkinetic free jazz.
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Over quiet, burbling, sunbaked guitar arpeggios, he recites gnostic puzzles and surreal rustic parables in a deep, gentle monotone.
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Ms. Björfors's vocabulary is the circus, just as Mr. McDermott's is puppetry and Mr. Glass's is his signature arpeggios.
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The wild arpeggios of the violin sounded like an unspoken truth: Some good little children die in the snow.
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In the first movement, the piano purveyed rippling arpeggios, a Glassian trademark, while the strings worked through melodic figures.
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Kate Moore's "Days and Nature" (2012) emerged from the changeable interplay of little cells of arpeggios spread across the ensemble.
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It has a lot of the Sufjan trademarks: broken arpeggios, breathy vocals; it shimmers and yet is also deeply melancholic.
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Instead of building into a cheerful rock song, it melted into a series of slow arpeggios and eventually faded away.
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The track's meandering and slow arpeggios over diaphanous synth sweeps can ease existential dread and inspire one to ponder instead.
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During a final episode the music becomes like a dance for Apu, all swirling arpeggios, fractured rhythms and myriad shadings.
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"Another Medium" twitches around, dodging melodic resolution as high keyboard arpeggios waver in reaction to the chord progression's nervous shift.
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It lacks a melody or a lead and it's a nice enough backing track, with all those arpeggios, but that's it.
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On the former, Björk paired elements of music with naturally occurring phenomena, like arpeggios with lightning or chords with tectonic plates.
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The goal of bel canto is to perfect the elaborate vocal gestures all over the role: trills, scales, arpeggios and leaps.
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As an encore, Mr. Hadelich played Paganini's solo Caprice No. 1, a whirlwind of nonstop arpeggios, dispatched with precision and panache.
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Of their two 2019 albums, U.F.O.F. is quieter, given to tiny plucked guitar arpeggios that emerge as hooks through the haze.
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He plays bracing, mile-a-minute postbop, often tangling up his arpeggios and using both hands to create layers of rhythm.
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The music is constantly moving, be it a series of arpeggios or other patterns mimicking the constant movement and rippling of water.
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Proof if proof needs be that electroclash wasn't all lighter-than-air arpeggios and vocals about blowing cocaine up Tony Bennet's chuff.
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"The bells in these towers at the time were not meant to be rung in chords, but separately in arpeggios," explains Tolan.
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Over mountainous synth arpeggios, the brothers harmonize and heave, singing abstractions about the moments that move you most—love, weakness, and fear.
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In the usual version, I was always surprised when these big crashing chords suddenly do switch into arpeggios a few measures later.
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The orchestra rustles with spiraling, jagged arpeggios and frenetic ascending riffs — grounded, just barely, by pedal tones that swell and then disappear.
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Like any classic late 70s or early 80s science fiction film, ominous synth arpeggios and ambient drones soundtrack the video courtesy of Machinefabriek.
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But even if you're not a youngster oblivious to the sonic world of beats, waves, and arpeggios, the site is still addictive as hell.
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The dreamy loops and circuitous arpeggios contained in the Vancouver musician Dylan Khotin-Foote's new tape Beautiful You could house some sort of mystery.
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Trance arpeggios and neon pads seem to suspend the rappers' slurred melodies in amber, like a Top 40 jam heard through a narcotic fog.
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A startling and pleasing feature is her use of synthesizers, which glide subtly along her vocal loops in tranquil arpeggios and low-humming tones.
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Later in the piece, as the waters become more agitated, the cascading arpeggios are like liquid running through the fingers, all shimmer and sparkle.
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In the symphony's luscious Adagio, the first violins played the melody with sugared intensity, but the little trembling arpeggios that accompany them failed to speak.
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"Samurai" meanwhile pairs melancholic melodies with a rolling UK garage shuffle, elaborating the mood with an almost orchestral arrangement of strings, synth pads, and arpeggios.
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It's punctuated by airy pads and shimmering, almost acidic arpeggios, a light accompaniment to the brooding, low-end bassline and punchy drums that sit underneath.
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Dizzying arpeggios evoke the openhearted energy of trance, but it feels more of organic life, like an algae bloom floating along post-modernity's gunmetal grey.
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Today, his Nudy track shows he understands the sonic language of contemporary Atlanta, bathing Nudy's wheeze in horror movie arpeggios and chest-caving bass work.
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It begins with spare melancholy before building to a final section that ties flowing Minimalist-style arpeggios with rhapsodic cello effusions: cool and warm, united.
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Warp wanted to hear something, and I was working on stuff with less arpeggios and chords, stuff with more layers than I'd been using previously.
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Judge Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright does not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the Ninth Circuit panel found.
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Less than a minute into the piece the piano plays jittery, mysterious arpeggios, which immediately lend inner tension to the tremulous flow of the music.
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Like a de facto piano concerto, Hummel's septet bustles with rippling passagework, decorative scales, cascading arpeggios and, in the rustic finale, bursts of dancing octaves.
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"Self Portrait in Ultramarine" begins with arpeggios that suggest church organs, submerging and resurfacing amid pools of whooshing pink noise while deeper bass tones loom.
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CARAMANICA The arpeggios that course through "Eclipse (Ashley)" are neatly asymmetrical — seven beats, then six — to make the song ripple smoothly but never feel settled.
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Instead, there's a viscous low pulse that both creeps downward and ripples upward with increasingly insistent electronic arpeggios, allowing no exit from centuries-old tensions.
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After finishing the Epistles set, Mr. Ibrahim began the wafting original "Sotho Blue" on solo piano, a few bebop skitters giving way to impressionist arpeggios.
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"Hurt Less" is glacially paced, with music-box arpeggios and a soft violin sketching out the edges of a melody while Baker, again, pries into agony.
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Or Suzanne Ciani's triumphant set in the aforementioned labyrinth, the drowned arpeggios of her Buchla almost mimicking the garbled clicks and whistles of the twilight forest.
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At the concert, Laurie Anderson reprised her role as one of the opera's soloists, delivering Beckett-like lines over Mr. Glass's signature arpeggios and pulsating rhythms.
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The cadenza — more than three restless minutes of runs, tone clusters and devilishly wide-ranging arpeggios — is one of the most thrilling in the piano repertoire.
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The music consists of a pointillist choral score over undulating arpeggios played on the violin in the first half of the piece, then on the viola.
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Percussive snaps and ticks, clipped arpeggios and a lot of silence back Ms. Gongol's whispery tease of a vocal, as she flirts with temptation and infidelity.
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No, more than a placid drift through interstellar spheres, Lindstrøm has set about careening wildly through a field of concussive synthesizer arpeggios and big dumb kick drums.
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But they denied that they had copied the arpeggios in "Stairway to Heaven" from "Taurus", a similar-sounding song by Spirit, who once supported them on tour.
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This tool allows users to create a series of arpeggios in a chord progression, resulting in a cycle of haunting, looping notes that rise and fall endlessly.
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I got through three arpeggios before my lip turned blue, and I felt as if I had just had a triple bypass while standing on two feet.
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J.P. L'Rain, the one-woman studio band concocted by Taja Cheek, makes music that's a sea of loops: guitar arpeggios, synthesizer burbles, endless layers of vocal harmony.
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A plinking six-note pattern recurs throughout the song, bolstered by sparse percussion and a few bass notes; harplike arpeggios and cooing voices waft in from above.
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They teased out the lustrous gleam of her rolling arpeggios, the enchanting lightness of pizzicato tossed from player to player, the blazing lyricism accompanied by passionate vibrato.
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Here the buzzy, standoffish basslines and, multifaceted drum tracks set the mood, while the R&B choruses and fluttery electronic arpeggios play as queasy memories of love lost.
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There's also smart play, a mode that lets you lock the keyboard to play only within a certain scale, or play chords and arpeggios with a single key.
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Don't quit before you get to Part 2; Monk's solo is a seminar in his language of chiming dissonance, off-the-cliff arpeggios and fistfuls of clanking harmony.
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Plinking, overlapping arpeggios and buzzy bass notes make a promising start, and the vocals are carefully acted, but the track runs out of ideas well before it ends.
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Somehow he rises to it, laying chords atop arpeggios, running across the instrument's range, all while focusing your ear on the big empty space in the trio's sound.
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In the second, the strings mostly took over the arpeggios, holding them to a statelier tempo, and the elements inspired by the chants came more to the fore.
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The title track employs Burial's familiarly haunting vocal samples while the B-side, "Nightmarket," nods to 80s film score with racing, urgent synth arpeggios disappearing into haze and static.
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Groups of beats in shifting metrical combinations churn constantly in midrange instruments, as oscillating two-note riffs, spiraling arpeggios, or rising and falling scales float above or hover below.
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There was the playfully competitive counterpoint of "Death to Advertising," the liquid arpeggios in "Veda (Paraphrase)" and a virtuosically set faux folk tune in "The New Sincerity Auld Reel."
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On "Azúcar," his dance-floor smash from the mid-1960s, the orchestra's horns dish out Mr. Palmieri's signature devices — sharp upward runs; coiled, key-climbing arpeggios — with added power.
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The sort of burning arpeggios that are best suited to long afternoons tearing down highways on opiates—not that we'd condone any behavior that's obviously death-friendly of course.
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Mai Khoi's powerful voice feeds off jazzy sax arpeggios and a dissonant riot of wind and string instruments — some traditional, some invented — that might sound unfamiliar to Western ears.
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At the end, in curt, biting phrases, he delivered the line "By far the best life is the one that cannot be lived" over motoric arpeggios in the strings.
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Meanwhile, the wife in "Best Years of My Life" is married, bored, miserable, singing her pain over waves of rippling pedal steel and plucked arpeggios that echo throughout the space.
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From there, the track turns to the call-and-response of delayed arpeggios and synth squiggles to round out the track's ecology, populating it with a variety of sonic species.
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It's also an entirely different production of the song — farewell to new wave guitars and synthesizers, hello to keyboard arpeggios and a new, more introspective transparency, at least at first.
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The track gently revolves around a melange of Navarro's soothing trumpet arpeggios and loops of Houston's meditative singing, as well as downtempo clicks and clacks provided by Karp and Marston.
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It's built on footwork DNA, while drawing in new rhythmic twists from R&B, East Coast club music, and the acidic arpeggios that Rashad started experimenting with on Double Cup.
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This was the second ever release on L.I.E.S. and it pretty much set the agenda for the blown out hardware and distorted arpeggios that have come to define the label.
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Each of the releases has had a hand as establishing her place as the one of the instrument's preeminent experimentalists, unfurling intersecting arpeggios that give the recordings a delirious momentum.
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" By the end, it's given way to resolution: Deacon's sounds are borderline symphonic, wandering piano arpeggios, with Ali falling back into reverie, resolving that "I'ma rage / I'ma rage / I'ma rage.
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The polyrhythmic drumming of Aric Improta on fourth song "Vantablonde" takes on an almost lyrical quality as it blends seamlessly with guitarist Nick DePirro's melodic arpeggios and beefed-up riffs.
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Mr. Andres delivered Mr. Glass's rapid arpeggios (reminiscent of the opera "Satyagraha," which had its premiere a few years before "Songs From Liquid Days") with baffling ease and gripping momentum.
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Over glistening harp arpeggios, other instruments enter one by one—horns, clarinets, oboes, flutes—with a phrase that climbs the notes of a triad and turns grandly at the top.
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Gleaming synth arpeggios react with puttering percussion and big, dumb, bass drum fist-pumps, all without losing the forward momentum that makes everything in the margins a little beautifully blurry.
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Honey, with it's delicate, sun-drenched sounding arpeggios and shimmering synths, is the soothing reminder of what kind of good exists when we emerge from the darkness of our minds.
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Shore occasionally employs live strings, but more often than not, it's the synthesizers that feel human: bass thumps turn into heartbeats; synthetic wooshes approximate breathing; distant, waterlogged arpeggios evoke the womb.
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Each song had its own texture: Some grew out of a drone, others out of gently undulating arpeggios; another was pushed along by crisp rhythmic ostinatos punched out on the harpsichord.
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Over the course of a little under 40 minutes, the duo manage to sneak in some cosmic synth arpeggios, swooning vocal house, lens-flare bashment, among other more unexpected left turns.
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Over and over the guitarist's left hand articulated strings with barely perceptible movements, sounding and muting notes almost simultaneously, and playing complete arpeggios with a single stroke of his right hand.
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They're full of these intricate arpeggios and vibrant bits of sound design, all of which overlap and shine like thousands of gleaming pixels coming together to make one hi-res image.
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On tenor saxophone, Jason Rigby dials up his solo even higher than on the record, fashioning arpeggios that bristle and heave, skimming energy from the chunky provocations of Fabian Almazan's piano.
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On a track like "The Root," which drapes D'Angelo's multitracked moan and Hunter's guitar arpeggios over a snaking backbeat, that feeling is recursive, throwing you off balance roughly every two bars.
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Compared with past movement leaders — Barack Obama, say — he's a forceful rather than lyrical speaker, his voice a Brooklyn-style poke in the chest, his music power chords rather than soaring arpeggios.
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" Indeed, that youthful awe is palpable throughout Groove Denied' and Metrolight's forthcoming album, present in the dreamlike wooziness of the synth melody on "Viktor Borgia" and the glitterball arpeggios of "Beautiful Prisons.
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Of all her releases, Картины is perhaps most indicative of the biodiversity she's able to pull from her shimmering arpeggios, which evoke the patterns of certain cruciferous vegetables in their complex, fractal arrangements.
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My first evening in possession of a virtual reality machine I came home from a night out, put on my headset, and watched jellyfish float around to a soundtrack of New Age arpeggios.
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One game called Pulse teaches the basics of rhythm; Jam lets users build rhythms and loops using whatever object they put their sensor on; and Keys lets players create melodies, arpeggios, and chords.
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But as I listened to Ms. Hahn, 38, embark once more on that 18-minute workout of runs, arpeggios and triple stops, I felt some of the magic drain out of the evening.
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Bless that night that gave me night, wrapped it 'round my bloody face, whispered how I could be grace notes, arpeggios, a piano roll of sound copying each note from everything around me.
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There's [arpeggios] that run throughout a lot of it and there's a lot of different synths that would pop in and out and there's parts with vocals from Sam Smith in the back.
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The sonic interpretation was a little more involved: a complex suite of classically inspired ambient pop with layers of melismatic vocals washing over looping arpeggios provided by a Juno and a Moog module.
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Like a lot of her pieces, the track is a sample-heavy but ultimately minimal track that creeps along amid playful bass bursts, offering drifting arpeggios that evoke both meanings of the word space.
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The first begins with manic bursts of arpeggios that sweep up the keyboard and cascade down in crystalline riffs, finally breaking into a restless melodic line that unfurls amid rustling figurations and teeming chords.
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On "Quema," Sotomayor — the duo of Mexican siblings Raul and Paulina Sotomayor — gestures briefly toward traditional percussion, then rolls in 1980s-flavored synthesizers, with a drum machine, a fuzzy bass line and bubbly arpeggios.
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Where most listeners could just headbang along to the death growling and fast-picked arpeggios without thinking too hard about the words, Sosebee had to draw more concrete conclusions about what they're singing about.
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As an activity, the sleigh ride indicates both class and leisure, but it's also a metaphor for musical propulsion, for a melody whose downward cascading arpeggios really do evoke a horse's manner of galloping.
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The three pianists took turns; on Allen's "Unconditional Love," Mr. Sands's quick runs and sharply articulated arpeggios cut a stark contrast with Ms. Spalding, whose playing and singing were like two flushes of wind.
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In Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's unnerving orchestral piece "Symphony, Antiphony" (1977), familiar sounds—D-major arpeggios, Mahlerian string laments, bits of ragtime piano—are presented in jumbled fashion, like snapshots and clippings in a Rauschenberg combine.
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The occasional hiccups in Ocasek's lead vocal conjures up memories of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue," and are reinforced by guitarist Elliot Easton's rockabilly arpeggios that would have made Elvis Presley's guitarist Scotty Moore proud.
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He rearranges all those glucosic arpeggios and luminous argon bass lines into something more complex and threatening—a reminder that brightness can blind you and sugar might rot your teeth in the long run.
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Moctar's guitar tone is both clean and fragile, steeped in flickering electricity; he doesn't play conventional riffs so much as spiral through arpeggios and land in the right places, getting dizzier with each chord change.
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With strong, simple melodies that easily bend to accommodate the inflections of Baker's naturalistic talk-singing, accompanied by bright guitar arpeggios cutting through the aural space, she's scaled the arrangements for maximum crispness and definition.
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The guitars, both electric and acoustic, play the role of protagonist like never before, saturated with chords, arpeggios, and even solos in most of the songs, including the simple "If You're Here" and "Sometime / Someplace".
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J.P. The first single from Jon Batiste's forthcoming album, "Hollywood Africans," stays anchored to a set of tolling, somber arpeggios on the piano, never bubbling over into a funk groove or a power-ballad roar.
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Jon Pareles In a swirl of harplike arpeggios over a stubborn beat, Matty Healy rails at hypocrisy and disinformation, complaining "Modernity has failed us," and admits to individual ambition despite it all: a millennial's plight.
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In the first, Mr. Sciarrino, clearly inspired by Paganini's dazzling violin caprices, writes an avant-garde equivalent, with whirlwinds of jagged, scratchy-toned arpeggios that flow into slinky, sliding tones, then erupt in staccato madness.
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Often there seems to be more breath than voice in these wordless poems, though other times Ms. Chaker draws full-bellied sounds, or sketches out silvery arpeggios while the bass or cello take center stage.
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Ditching the overdriven hyperactivity of the original, they opt for a mood more spartan and fine-tuned, giving the militant air of the track a slightly different flavor with short-circuited arpeggios from fizzling analog synths.
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"Road Head," meanwhile, glides unnervingly on its backbeat; the pealing guitar figure, moving back and forth with a hypnotist's deliberation, provides a fulcrum on which to position fluttery keyboard arpeggios and Zauner's own intermittent, ethereal exclamations.
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Notwithstanding the wide gamut of moods and drastic leaps in Tchaikovsky's score, nothing prepares the ear for the sweeping, beyond-candy grandeur of the music here: The introduction suggests enchantment, with rippling arpeggios on the harp.
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Whenever I hear the prelude's rolling arpeggios, they summon the memory of standing in that lobby, wearing my little crimson knit suit with the elastic waist to accommodate the baby weight, and sobbing my heart out.
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On their fourth album, "Ordinary Corrupt Human Love," released on July 13, this San Francisco metal band sounds almost tender: Layers of delicate, jam-ready arpeggios organically evolve into displays of intense, all-systems-go virtuosity.
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Few symphony orchestras venture far into a season without summoning a soloist to execute the majestic opening arpeggios of Beethoven's "Emperor," the throat-clearing double-stops of the Dvořák Cello Concerto, or some other familiar bold gesture.
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"Stuck in the System" features stop-start orchestral samples with all the grandiosity of a Heatmakerz production, while "Pixel Rainbow Sequence" counterbalances pixelated keyboard arpeggios with a roving bassline that seems to possess a mind of its own.
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Bernstein — a highly gifted speaker who is often given to linguistic arpeggios — is particularly charming with foreign correspondents such as the Nepalese poet Yubraj Aryal, the Canary Islands-born writer Manuel Brito, and French writer Penelope Galey-Sacks.
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"Darling" starts with a full minute of wordless instrumental, a three-bar chord progression accreting layers of pretty scales and arpeggios as it repeats, then gives way to a more conventional four-bar pattern that carries the lyrics.
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In the third piece, over a softly churning piano line — Lucas Debargue was her subtle partner — Ms. Jansen played flowing arpeggios on glassy harmonics, giving the effect of a sprite dancing on the lip of a simmering volcano.
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The blend of ringing guitar arpeggios, plucked banjos, and electronic polish simulating the rosy amber of pedal steel, meshing with glistening keyboards and stop/start/rise/drop electrohouse dynamics, produces the current pop climate's closest equivalent to soft rock.
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There is no other way to say this: Those arpeggios are the sound of flying at the rim, the music Bach himself would have composed if he had the good fortune to live in an era with professional basketball.
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He and the players went all out, though, during the climactic Maestoso, with its stirring theme, rippling piano arpeggios and full-throttled organ (here played by Kent Tritle, the Philharmonic's organist and the director of music at the cathedral).
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Most of the music sounds hand played, and it's easy to hear the vocal harmonies of the Beach Boys, the guitar arpeggios of folk rock, the haze of psychedelia and the rhapsodic structures of progressive rock throughout the album.
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If you know Lindstrom and Prins Thomas at all—and we'll assume that as you're reading THUMP, you have at least some idea of them—you know what to expect: gloopy basslines, arpeggios, and an almost overwhelmingly wonderful sense of melody.
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The music deftly captures the interaction of the architecture and its environment, with puffy woodwind chords evoking cloud-chased skies, and delicate arpeggios, traded back and forth between the violins and the harp, mimicking light bouncing off a faceted surface.
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A leading elder statesman in jazz, Mr. Coleman is known for his subtly adventurous solos, full of extended arpeggios; his keen but coolheaded tone; and a brief affiliation with the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1960s that jump-started his career.
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Alongside Essaie pas' new mix, you can also check a premiere of Rother's version of the title track which morphs the static of the original into a cosmic sort of electro—a collection of soaring synth arpeggios building skyward from the gutter.
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" As Nick Sanborn's analog-sounding synthesizers boop through quick, perky arpeggios over a ticking backbeat, Ms. Meath sings about following the format rules while chafing against them, about "faking the truth in a new pop song/Don't you want to sing along?
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In the break before, Virgil sat at the piano and showed me how he liked the series of short, ascending arpeggios in the left hand to sound: played dry, each with a gentle upward lift, to suggest the motions of the device.
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Montréal-via-London producer Deadboy has shared a shimmering new track off his forthcoming Columns EP. "Glass Lake," which THUMP is thrilled to premiere today, finds the producer pairing a vintage house rhythm section with cascading, delayed arpeggios to evoke a radiant sense of placidity.
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The violinist David Bowlin was impressive in Marcos Balter's Violin Concerto, especially in the beautiful middle movement, which seemed to explore the notion of sympathetic resonance, with the solo violin spinning high arpeggios out of the overtones created by bell-like piano-and-percussion chords.
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It's a trill-led track that tip-toes into the gentle arpeggios of a Sims soundtrack, drifts into lounge music for a moment, and then dances back to its start-point with a delicacy that makes it all seem destined to break at any moment.
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Led by a procession of drums and a chorus of synthetic voices, brawny keyboard lines, and erupting arpeggios, the footage takes us from the elemental to the illuminated when we are treated to the optical light work designed by the video's director Michael Robinson.
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Second, the effect of enhancing flight is present in the very instrumentation of the song, what with those wonderful synthesizer arpeggios, starting slow and low and casting up infinitely toward the sky, lifting the eyes and ears of the audience into the rafters every time it rises.
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The guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, who was still finding his footing on the band's 2011 album, "I'm With You," sounds fully vested now: The spidery arpeggios and echoey accents in "The Longest Wave" reflect the long shadow of his predecessor, John Frusciante, but that's to be expected.
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It starts with a lone guitar picking slow arpeggios, speeds up as the band gradually joins in and finally allows itself the relative luxury of multiple layers of vocals and guitars, revving up to a swirling, shimmering waltz — a brief stretch of instrumental euphoria despite every misgiving.
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The lackadaisical opener "Deep Green" takes an unexpectedly funky turn into "Of the Past," a track that feels like a surprise gem plucked from a dusty record store bin, with adult-contemporary piano solos, calypso arpeggios, and a charmingly retro dancing-on-a-cruise-ship groove.
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Sonically, he remains loyal to his golden indie rock sound—polished studio wizardry, glossy guitars, sparkling riffs, and signature guitar jangles and arpeggios—at the heart of his last two solo albums, 2013's The Messenger and 2014's Playland, alongside Boomslang, his 2003 Johnny Marr + The Healers project.
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There were passages like this, as if hearing the opera with new ears, throughout Mr. Muti's "Aida": pinprick violin arpeggios evoking the flow of the Nile in the opening of the third act; tiny grace notes that add ineffable spirit to the short second-act ballet in Amneris's chambers.
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His lyrical compositions layer the ghostly frayed voices of his ancestors with jazzy arpeggios on the piano, keening cellos lines and arching phrases sung in his own voice, which is powered by classical training and colored here and there by the tremor and guttural catch of traditional chant.
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George Enescu's 20th-century "Ménétrier," in which expressive lyricism is broken up by fleet passages, offers a brief glimpse at Bach's monumental Chaconne with its arpeggios; so did a fantasia by Nicola Matteis from the dawn of the 18th century and Kaija Saariaho's "Nocturne" nearly 300 years later.
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A larger group of composers, among them Lisa Bielawa, Noam Sivan, Eric Nathan and Anthony Cheung, put Ms. Koh through her paces with athletic works that employed many of the challenges Paganini specialized in: extreme jumps in register, double- and triple-stopped notes, trills, blurs of fast runs and arpeggios.
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Adams's playful title, quoting a remark apocryphally attributed to Martin Luther, led me to expect another example of what the composer has called his "trickster" mode—the most notorious instance being " Grand Pianola Music ," from 1982, in which Beethoven's "Emperor" arpeggios are thrown into a mixer with Rachmaninoff and ragtime.
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"✓ iNTERBEiNG," to give just one example, moves from night-drive guitar arpeggios into unpredictable glitchy ambience, befitting some of the slower Autechre tracks, before rocketing back off into a giddy synth riff and spidery riffing that kinda feels like Joe Satriani surfing over a nightcore remix of an Envy track.
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And so it continued, with Mr. Pelz's "Repetition Blindness," a restless new piece that shifts from dreamily descending arpeggios to bouts of pummeling chords, at the center of the program, which wound back through the other halves of the pieces by Mozart, Bach and Froberger, and the rest of the Janacek.
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In his hard bop period in the late 1950s, the frenetic pace with which notes exploded out of his horn peppered audiences with what was famously dubbed "sheets of sound," and each flood of arpeggios brought with it new chapters in music theory that have become standard lessons for jazz improvisers today.
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In the years since Sylvester's death from complications of AIDS in 1988, his 1978 single, "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)," has proven to be one of the most enduring hits of the disco era—perhaps you even heard its rollicking basslines and cosmic arpeggios in a Target commercial at some point.
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It also doesn't it rely on clichéd melodies; pieces like "Norrsken" by Karin Borg, are carried by dense thickets of intersecting arpeggios and the low-lying fog of digital reverb—not a million miles away from the blunt piano pieces of the last Grouper record (Which I mean as basically the highest possible compliment).
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For nearing on a decade, or more if you count the work he did as Sandwell District, Juan Mendez has proven himself one of the more ecstatic operators in the world of downcast electronic music—tracing luminous arpeggios across the pitch-black electro-scrapings and thunderous beats that make up most of his work.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads As America debates which way the scales of justice will tip, it's time to wish a happy 225th birthday to Carl Czerny (February 21, 1791–July 15, 1857), whose many studies for the piano are still widely used by students to improve their playing of scales, arpeggios, and other techniques.
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A practical update of Jamie xx's "All Under One Roof Raving" for those who have no interest in watching Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, "I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It" is a small-scale fantasia of elided vocal processing, feather-soft arpeggios, and a stuttering rhythm that's equal parts propulsive and winsome.
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The number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 had been occupied by the peppy chords of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand", the twanging arpeggios of The Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun", the pulsing bass notes of The Beach Boys' "I Get Around" and the stonking riff of The Rolling Stones' "(Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
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The daffy libretto, however, inspired Julian Wachner, best known as the director of music and the arts at Trinity Wall Street, to create an explosively, virtuosically eclectic score, with the pummeling perpetual motion of John Adams, the burbling angularity and dark comedy of Stephen Sondheim, the arpeggios of Philip Glass, and the coloratura of Handel — all thrown into a blender with some amphetamines.
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First the gliding chorus, then the swooning verse, again the chorus, and suddenly it all explodes into the bridge, suddenly the horns are blasting and the sitar is moaning and a tinkly electric piano is playing these cascading arpeggios and Prince, his voice still smooth and feminine, is squealing howling sobbing in ecstasy, suddenly the music climaxes, spills over the edge, heavy breathing, pounding hearts.
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Moments later, the band was barreling through a string of songs about lust, love and romance: the pealing arpeggios and Bo Diddley beat of "She's the One"; the galloping momentum of "Candy's Room"; the anthemic surge of "Because the Night" with a leaping, swooping guitar solo played by Nils Lofgren as he hopped and twirled on one foot; and the updated girl-group pop, with troubled thoughts, of "Brilliant Disguise," which ended with Mr. Springsteen embracing his wife (and backup singer), Patti Scialfa.
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The Mogees Play will ship with three iOS apps: Mogees Pulse, a rhythm game, which is a little reminiscent of Guitar Hero (and has the backing of Guitar Hero founder Charles Huang); Mogees Jam, a recording studio in your pocket that enables you to build rhythms, melodies and loops using the acoustic properties of any object a Mogees Play is attached to; and Mogees Keys, which is a 'smart' keyboard to trigger melodies, arpeggios and chords using the Mogees Play.
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If her brother, whom she'd taught to play the piano, spending day after day, hour after hour patiently perfecting arpeggios and atonal music and the concept of particular keys, if the brother she walked to school in the early morning air and did homework with at night, the brother she kept company when he said he was afraid that the dark bedroom might "get him," that it might physically swallow him up like a black hole swallowing a star—because she'd taught him about that, too—if the brother who left her a yellow sticky note saying, "You R my favrite Sistter," knowing it was funny because he only had one, if he, the brother whose sister listened to him talk himself tearless when his first girlfriend, Jillian Jenkins, broke up with him the night before the prom, if he, who unquestionably, undoubtedly loved her, his sister, if he could harbor the word robot and deploy it as a slur, if he of all people could do it, she must have known then what the rest of us in the cities failed to see.
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