Sentence examples for melodic contour from inspiring English sources

Loudness change was also greater for down-ramps presented with a congruent descending melodic contour, relative to an incongruent pairing (down-ramp and ascending melodic contour).

Some songs from this area feature a descending melodic contour, and both duple and triple metres occur.

Each style is represented by a different color and the shape of the squiggles indicates the general melodic contour.

Mr. Reich also mimics the speech rhythms and pitches of the subjects, uncannily and often wittily capturing the exact melodic contour and metric shape of the words.

Almost like a jazz musician, Mr. Bilson does not hesitate to disguise completely a melodic contour with his decorative flights of fancy.

During her Carlos 1 engagement, two sets, with most of the songs repeated twice, showed a remarkable sensitivity to melodic contour and mood.

They sit by the campfire and listen to the song whose melodic contours describe it like a map.

Mr. Berkeley's brief "Farewell," on his own text, has the melodic contours of a pop song and the gentleness of a lullaby.

They are based on modal scales, rhythmic cycles and traditional melodic contours, ideas that were carried along the Silk Road, which connected them.

Melodic contours undulate, sometimes with a descending inflection, and singers achieve rhythmic complexity through special breathing techniques they use to vary durational values.

Melodic contours vary by genre, but they often have a descending inflection; rhythmic structures range from strongly metred collective dance songs to free-rhythm individual songs.