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.
It's a bummed-out coherence: 40 minutes of slow, thick miasma, with recurring, descending melodic phrases tying it all together.
There was also, of course, the Lang Lang trademark of milking melodic phrases and going for attention-grabbing virtuosic effects.
When Mr. Blaauw's Michael played fragments of melodic phrases against those lingering harmonies, the music was like Stockhausen's homage to Ives's "Unanswered Question".
Though she does not have perfect coloratura technique, she ably dispatches the roulades and runs, folding them deftly into extended melodic phrases.
Enigmatic melodic phrases come and go, alternating with quietly whirling figures, skittish pizzicati bursts, sustained passages of pungent atonal harmonies, and more.
An influence on jazz pianists such as Oscar Peterson, Cole was known for a compact, syncopated piano style with clean, spare, melodic phrases.
Associated with a given mode are a hierarchy of pitches, the principal and auxiliary tones, endings of melodic phrases (cadential formulas), ornaments, and the vocal line.
