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- Italian · borrowed fromtremolo
- English todaytremolo
Borrowed from Italian tremolo, first-person present indicative of tremolare (“to shake, to tremble”). Origin: 1715-25.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tremolo
Today it means: A rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also be intended to mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note. It is notated by a strong diagonal bar across the note stem, or a detached bar for a set of notes (or stemless notes). Full definition →
Italian tremolo