Sentence examples for melodic passage from inspiring English sources

Whenever a singer let loose in a sustained melodic passage, the effect was overwhelming.

This segues into a lovely, melodic passage – carried by analogue synthesiser tones.

Mr. Salonen's work is filled with ideas, references to past composers (was that a touch of the "Tristan" chord?) and a recurring impulse to battle its own tendency toward lyricism, quashing a melodic passage in "Prologue," for instance, with a flatulent blat from the oboe.

Ian Inglis identifies "a lovely melodic passage" in the first line of the choruses, which he regrets "is never fully developed elsewhere", and compares the song favourably with Marvin Gaye's 1971 album What's Going On.

Melodic passages play against dronelike accompaniments from the harp (Bridget Kibbey), chimes or mallet percussion.

He has a control over piercing multiphonics that is the equal of his poise in more "regular" melodic passages.

Wistfully melodic passages that could be music for a soothing fly-the-skies commercial segue into bursts of bossa nova.

In some fugues, the subject is always present in one part or another; in most, statements of the subject are often separated by connective melodic passages called episodes.

In one of the score's few melodic passages (how the original dancers and musicians hated this thickly textured score!), the Bolebachki do a grotesque stamping dance.

Elsewhere the spirit of the time is evoked in wistful, gently melodic passages, played over a pedal point, or repeating bass note.

Ascending melodic passages keep driving through it, and though certain themes do return after long stretches, this is not short-form music, like most jazz.