0 When birds trill, they sing a series of quickly repeated high notes.
[ + speech ] "I'll be right down!" trilled Daphne.
1 (the effect achieved by) the fast playing of a note and the note above or below it, one after the other
3 a sound that is made by very small, quick movements of one of the organs used in speech
4 a series of quickly repeated high notes such as those sung by a bird
Tension is frequently generated through the use of overlapping trills, tremolos, glissandi, and scalar figures within textures of g radually increasing density and volume.
Figure 16 shows the notation for the first phrase of the piece, which includes three combinations of grace notes and trills.
Similar trills and oscillations, soft percussion attacks, gleams of brass and string har monics ensue, but all is introductory.
The nightingales, that had hushed their songs while the firing lasted, now star ted their trills once more; first one quite close, then others in the distance.
Figure 17 (sound example 8) shows a 12-second example of legato and staccato tones, sliding trills and pitch bend from the dizi part for this section.
Have not some of our strikes—and not the smallest of them—found their origin in trilling incidents which well come within the province of day-to-day working?
What would happen to music if, one day, you could patent scales, chords, trills and everything else that makes the world of classical music so rich and exciting?
The superb starling has a long and loud song consisting of trills and chatters.
