Sentence examples for melodic phrasing from inspiring English sources

Since the tunes are harmonically and structurally simple, fiddlers create interest and surprise by subtly varying melodic phrasing and subverting rhythmic expectations.

Janice Felty, the soprano, gave a good account of Mr. Harbison's novel melodic phrasing, which gets to the heart of the Bishop texts.

An Earlier 'Lady' Mr. Griffin, for his part, says he considers lyrics to be lines of dialogue and melodic phrasing to be elements of character.

In addition, melodic phrasing and instrumental accompaniment may be deliberately out of step a displacement technique described in 1952 by American anthropologist Richard Waterman as "offbeat phrasing of melodic accents".

And they became almost proudly derivative, particularly of the big, distorted riffs and melodic phrasing of early Weezer.

His is a black-and-white style of playing that alternates between self-assured snappish strumming and crisp melodic phrasing.

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

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

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

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

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