Old hits like "Gin and Juice" emphasized melody as much as rhythm.
Lessons emphasized melody, rhythm or form; in half of the classes, the teacher made the musical-mathematical parallels explicit.
Söderqvist has described the outcome as consisting of both darkness and light, and emphasized melody and harmony as the most important qualities of the music.
Beiderbecke's style was very different from that of Louis Armstrong according to The Oxford Companion to Jazz: Where Armstrong emphasized showmanship and virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody, even when improvising, and different from Armstrong and contrary to how the Bix Beiderbecke of legend would be portrayed he rarely strayed into the upper reaches of the register.
He learned to emphasize melody by plucking it with his strong thumb in syncopation with harmonic notes picked with his first two fingers.
Together — well, in parallel — they've spent the last few years remaking hip-hop's center, emphasizing melody, feeling and post-street virtues while stuck in a subliminal Oedipal psychic struggle.
He used live guitars and vocals performed by his girlfriend, the British pop singer Ellie Goulding, and he described the score — which he declined to play because he had not finished it — as a distilled version of his dance music, which took out all the upbeat parts, emphasizing melody, "leaving the pretty parts, leaving the sad parts".
The most promising class tension on "Gallery Girls" isn't a war between the Upper and Lower East Side, it's between the stressball Claudia, whose family laid out a $15,000 loan that's evaporating quickly, and Chantal, who emphasizes melody over content in her speech, every sentence sounding like a question, and who has supported herself since she was 16.
Doom emphasizes melody, melancholy tempos, and a sepulchral mood relative to many other varieties of metal.
In contrast to other subgenres doom metal, influenced by Gothic rock, slowed down the music, with bands like England's Pagan Altar and Witchfinder General and the United States' Pentagram, Saint Vitus and Trouble, emphasizing melody, down-tuned guitars, a 'thicker' or 'heavier' sound and a sepulchral mood.
Where early trance was generally harsh, minimal and coldly cosmic, more recent strains of the genre emphasize melody, recognizably human emotions and a warmly devotional aura.
