Sentence examples for a string of melodies from inspiring English sources

The older songs were close to Balkan folk traditions, using odd meters and modal scales; each one was a string of melodies for singer or instruments.

Mr. Binney phrased the melody as a string of hiccups and then eased into an elastic mode, coolly extemporizing over bass and drums, with ample space for Mr. Weiss to fill.

A musician in the front row with a winter coat on stood up to sit in: Wayne Tucker, a young trumpeter who improvises in careful strings of melody, with a burry sound.

A dexterous, inventive rapper, Chance ties phrases in knots, bursts into unexpected strings of melody and delivers ad libs halfway between a whine and a growl.

Kavanaugh looks as if she has simply put a few stitches between the string of marvellous melodies so that the evening is an almost seamless musical tapestry.

It began with two selections from "Life on a String": the pensive violin melody of "Here With You" and then "Statue of Liberty," for which Ms. Anderson had changed her lyrics.

And it is not one vulgar rip, but a whole string of them, playing out one after the other, like jazz musicians passing along the melody.

In the piece, Calix warms the cold mechanical sound of the MRI with the soaring melodies of a string quartet.

Each half of the program ended with a big, string-driven effusion of melody.

K. Ross Hoffman of AllMusic described the song as "a stirring, string-laden monolith of melody" and commended it as the standout ballad from Three.

And he can be literal-minded about music, interested in demonstrations of rhythmic affinities, strings of recognizable melody quotations or tonal descriptions of physical actions.