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thumb|upright=1.2|Tremolo notation (denoting rapid repetition) In music, tremolo (), or tremolando (), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo. It is either the rapid repetition of a note, alternation between two different notes, or variation in volume.

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  • Types of tremolo
  • Rapid reiteration or oscillation
  • Amplitude variation
  • History
  • Notation
  • Bowed string instruments
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading

thumb|upright=1.2|Tremolo notation (denoting rapid repetition) In music, tremolo (), or tremolando (), is a trembling effect. There are multiple types of tremolo. It is either the rapid repetition of a note, alternation between two different notes, or variation in volume.

Tremolos may be either measured, in which the exact rate of repetition or oscillation is specified, or unmeasured, in which it is not (the understanding being in that case that it should be performed as rapidly as possible).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tremolo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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