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BuddhaMaster · Post by **BuddhaMaster** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:29 am

I'm trying to collect some information to name musical structures.

Whats the name for a slow thrill, played with half duration notes, instead of quarter (total 8 notes for 4/4)?

And what's it called if even slower (whole notes)?

I call it swing or melodic interval, but 1st: It's too long 2nd: "Interval" is not precise enough!

someone called simon · Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:57 am

I'm not sure, but do you mean 'trill'? I think that's the term you mean rather than thrill

monkeyweasel · Post by **monkeyweasel** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:22 am

how you mean? like tightrope-walking across the niagara falls? or stealing a car with an empty fuel tank?

DrApostropheX · Post by **DrApostropheX** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:36 am

Gruppetto?

Or was that the guy who carved Pinnochio?

Ogg Vorbis · Post by **Ogg Vorbis** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:25 pm

DrApostropheX wrote:Gruppetto?

Or was that the guy who carved Pinnochio?

Strappado?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:37 pm

someone called simon wrote:I'm not sure, but do you mean 'trill'? I think that's the term you mean rather than thrill

Nope, and MJ was the only one........ye hee.........

On a serious note, a quite google gave this, which may lead you do your answer.

http://www.google.com/search?q=slow+tri ... =firefox-a

Tony Ostinato · Post by **Tony Ostinato** » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:43 pm

the thrill is gone

BuddhaMaster · Post by **BuddhaMaster** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:52 am

What Im looking for is basically called arpeggio, played entirely with half lenght notes (even slower: full notes)?
and whats it called if you alter between fewer or more notes (3,5,6?)
always going up and down (like a curvy V)

Because If one refers to trill or apreggio, he always thinks in quarters! (black notes)

C00kie · Post by **C00kie** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 7:33 am

Even with whole notes instead of 16ths, it's still called an arpeggio. The note lengths doesn't change it.

Nystul · Post by **Nystul** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 10:45 am

An arpeggio consists of the notes of a chord, played one after another instead of simultaneously. The speed of the notes doesn't really matter. What makes it an arpeggio is that it is a broken chord.

A trill is one note that is embellished by alternating between it and the note above it (ex. CDCDCDCDCDCDC). Trills are always very fast, although the exact note value can vary depending on the tempo.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:10 am

rbarata · Post by **rbarata** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:09 pm

There are many trills in AC/DC's first albums.

pinkjimiphoton · Post by **pinkjimiphoton** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:23 pm

i believe the term you seek is mordent.... a really slow trill where you hear no blurring of the notes due to speed...quite popular in baroque classical music, and with certain rock bands like boston.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_% ... 29#Mordent

Km7 · Post by **Km7** » Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:51 pm

Trill and arpeggio are two different things. Trill is alternation between two adjacent pitches. Arpeggio means broken chord - that is, the chord tones played melodically, one after another.

whiligo · Post by **whiligo** » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:57 am

There really is not a term specifically for that. A mordent is not the same thing. The only thing that I can think of that would encompass this (since arpeggios only apply to situations with three or more pitches) is an ostinato, which is simply a series of notes that is repeated. (it is notated as seen above in the musical example about arpeggios).

Whats a slow 'thrill' called?