Sentence examples for melodic grace from inspiring English sources

Grétry's music is noted for its finesse and melodic grace.

The team, though, who come closest to Mosley and Garrett in terms of sonic bravado and melodic grace are C. (Tricky) Stewart and Terius (The-Dream) Nash.

Here, Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul have written a winning low-key date song for the couple, finding melodic grace in romantic awkwardness.

He has found the precise point where Stan Getz meets John Coltrane; his delicious yet assertive tone conspires with melodic grace to give his solos poetry and power.

Yet besides knowing what he was doing dramatically, Vinci was hailed by 18th-century commentators for pioneering a new musical style that moved away from Baroque intricacy to cultivate melodic grace and freshness.

Henri Sauguet, original name Henri-Pierre Poupard (born May 18 , 1901 Bordeaux, France died June 22 , 1989 Paris) French composer of orchestral, choral, and chamber music notable for its simple charm and melodic grace.

The lilting, bass-led waltz Circle Song has something of the folk-melodic grace of Avishai Cohen's music, while Lock, Stock and Shuffle struts with the broad-grin swing of a 1960s hard-bop band.

4. Ornaments, or graces (small melodic devices such as grace notes, appoggiaturas, trills, slides, tremolo, and slight deviations from standard pitch), may be used to embellish a melody.

And in the sublimely lyrical final movement, Mr. Maazel, who can sometimes be exasperating with his mannered phrasing, shaped the melodic lines with grace, restraint and sensitivity.

Yet in December 1877, only months after its premiere, he wrote in a letter of first hearing Delibes's "Sylvia" (1876), "Never before has there been a ballet with such grace, such melodic and rhythmic richness, such superlative scoring".

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