We probably lean towards more a moody, melodic expression.
No one else should ever be granted the privilege of witnessing your practiced methods of physio melodic expression.
These cells never allow a melodic line to blossom into over-expression or wallow in sentimentality.
To this end, "musical" features of the child's expression (pulse, rhythmic, dynamic or melodic patterns, timbre etc).
That's what you hear throughout this movement, an ever-changing, continuously unpredictable play of different speeds of musical material, different modes of expression, from fragmentary explosions to intensely felt melodic lines.
Holst's absorption of folksong, not only in the melodic sense but in terms of its simplicity and economy of expression, helped to develop a style that many of his contemporaries, even admirers, found austere and cerebral.
Counterpoint is abandoned; expression arises from orchestral crescendos and diminuendos (anticipated by Jommelli), characteristic melodic effects such as sighing appoggiaturas (short ornamental notes that resolve into principal notes) and rocketing arpeggiated (broken) chords, and strong dynamic, thematic, and textural contrasts.
A melodic improviser, he reflected both ragtime phrasing and more advanced, Armstrong-like concepts of melody and expression.
Generally, the tala is given expression by an accompanying drummer, yet the rhythmic cycles are maintained in the mind of the melodic soloist in any case and are ever present, whether or not audibly performed.
