Sentence examples for melodic movement from inspiring English sources

'There was no melodic movement.

Both lines had elegant melodic movement.

In addition, that suite included a rhapsodic, melancholic Prelude; a frenetic, dissonant Scherzo; and a nostalgic, melodic movement, "The Return".

The first two movements are overwhelmingly beautiful: a heavy population of inner voices in deep conversation, all in service of great, sweeping melodic movement.

In Western plainchant, abbreviated words were used to indicate duration (for example, c = cito or celeriter = "short" value) and direction of melodic movement (l = levare, and s = sursum = "upward").

Even though this minimalist piece only features four different pitches, Young says this version of the composition creates "a pattern that demonstrates the melodic movement … And then they found out that they could do certain techniques such as canons.

The wit of the first section is replaced by a Grieg-like lyricism in the more melodic second movement, rendered here with soothing introspection by orchestra and soloist.

The Ninth is a texturally dense, changeable score, dark and melancholy at its beginning and end and in parts of its richly melodic slow movement, but bright and hard driven in long stretches elsewhere.

Its compendium of sonic images and the use of changing sound colors to replace melodic and harmonic movement have all been heard before.

Surrounding it, and suffusing the central movement, are melodic threads that take peculiar turns and are painted in unusual hues that often evoke electronic sounds.

In a commanding account of Shostakovich's Cello Sonata in D minor, the martial rhythms that interrupt the opening movement's melodic outpouring felt especially charged and brittle.