Sentence examples for melodic material from inspiring English sources

The composer then elaborated on this fundamental melodic material.

He was unembarrassed to borrow melodic material, which he transformed in an utterly personal way.

A rotation process begins: the melodic material is broken into fragments and repeatedly reshaped.

After Cherry joined Coleman's quartet, the group abandoned standard harmonic structures in favour of improvisation wholly on melodic material.

The movements share enough raw melodic material that, taken together, they should have an "organic quality," he said.

It's written in Beethoven's later style, which is more refinedand mature: the melodic material is more concise.

But the melodic materials unfold over a bed of sustained tonal harmonies and an insistent pulse that keep the music grounded.

Rachmaninoff makes deft use of the crimped melodic materials of the second movement, finding numerous ways to intertwine and prolong the theme.

Composed in 1973, these eight short character pieces are built of fairly simple melodic materials and varied rhythms but are wrapped in a cloak of prickly dissonance that obscures their minor charms.

An early "Estonian Dance Suite" proves delightfully that he was appreciative of the folk music of his country, but in his 10 symphonies, he eschews all such references in favor of amiable melodic materials that lend themselves to structural manipulation but are only mildly memorable.

After the seventh take, he wrote, he had "three lines of verse, a garbled fragment of melodic material and a magnificent idea".