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tremolo Music
1. 
a. (in playing the violin, cello, etc.) the rapid repetition of a single note produced by a quick back-and-forth movement of the bow
b. the rapid reiteration of two notes usually a third or greater interval apart (fingered tremolo)
2. (in singing) a fluctuation in pitch
3. a vocal ornament of late renaissance music consisting of the increasingly rapid reiteration of a single note
4. another word for tremulant


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This release also features functional enhancements to the recently released Sibelius 4 and, coupled with GPO's own programming, allows for powerful and sensitive rendition of articulation and expression markings (including slurs, bowing and tremolo indications, hairpins and other dynamics, as well as all standard articulations) during playback.
The enduring musical recipe as laid out by Dale in the 1962 classic ``Miserlou'': staccato melody lines played on the low strings of a Fender Stratocaster drenched liberally in the ``wet'' sound of reverb with swelling surf evoked by the guitar's tremolo bar.
Lyon & Lyon has prosecuted or defended a number of patents during its long lifetime, including the original Mickey Mouse of the 1930s, a synchronized tremolo device on the 1954 Fender Stratocaster guitar, an innovation that inactivates the AIDS virus in therapeutic products made from blood, the Rolex watch, Mag Instruments Inc.
 
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