Sentence examples for melodic phrase from inspiring English sources

It evolves in overlapping, variously elaborated repetitions of a melodic phrase.

"Yeah, tomorrow," he sang, in a sighing melodic phrase over a supple chord progression, "Yeah, today".

Then Violetta sings a soaring melodic phrase to herself (repeated later), wondering why she ever dared to attend the party.

Yet she could also be impetuous, rushing ahead during a fleet run or prolonging a melodic phrase.

Draw a slash at the end of every melodic phrase, and shoehorn in a strong-weak ending.

Ostinato, ( Italian: "obstinate", ) plural Ostinatos, or Ostinati, in music, short melodic phrase repeated throughout a composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch.

At times he ended melodic phrases abruptly and halted in his delivery.

At the climax of soaring melodic phrases Ms. Netrebko easily filled the house with shimmering sound.

He took a genial, unrushed approach to the opening Allegro, allowing ample time for melodic phrases to breathe.

At its strongest, the composer's instinctive feeling for Italianate lyricism is broken up intriguingly with jagged, fragmented melodic phrases.

There was also, of course, the Lang Lang trademark of milking melodic phrases and going for attention-grabbing virtuosic effects.