Sentence examples for melodic figures from inspiring English sources

Creeping melodic figures evolve into widening and mysterious chords.

The loops in version 2.0 are less like drones and more like small melodic figures.

There are lovely melodic figures that recur, roughly in the same sequence, but never the same way twice.

(The Persian modes are melodic frameworks, each with a given scale, typical melodic figures, and accepted emotional content).

Later, the saxophonist Louie Belogenis executed angular melodic figures while the trumpeter Stephanie Richards added soft, lustrous tones.

The pensive orchestral music that introduces the multilayered first scene has wistful, winding melodic figures and chromatic harmonies that smartly evoke Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem.

In the Copland one hears elements that emerged more fully a decade later: an arching melodic figure, for example, that resurfaced as connecting material in "Appalachian Spring".

The arrangement integrates thematic material from another Guaraldi tune, "Linus and Lucy," assigning that piece's signature melodic figure to the trumpets.

It also offers an easily recognizable signpost: a short melodic figure that crops up periodically, like the ritornello of a Baroque or Classical rondo.

And in the Rondo-Burleske, in the middle of the storm of counterpoint, there are epiphanies of stillness and visionary escape, as the solo trumpet calls out a melodic figure that will go on to define the next, final movement.

In my student days I witnessed similar reactions from David Diamond and Lukas Foss, who knew the score by heart and could not resist curling up in its comfortable corners, reiterating a chord or a melodic figure as if it were a treasured talisman.