Max's large orchestra glitters with a halo of tuned percussion – crotales, glockenspiel, tubular bells, marimba, important roles for the harp and celesta and even an unusually melodic part for the timpani.
By adding French horns and woodwinds (including piccolo, bass clarinet, and at times multiple clarinets) and reinstating the tuba in a more melodic and contrapuntal role, Thornhill's orchestra acquired a totally fresh and subtle sound, one considerably softer and more opaque than the bright, loud, brash sonorities of the late swing-era bands.
Because whistled languages use melody to convey their meaning, however, Güntürkün and others wondered whether the right hemisphere, which processes melodic tones, might play a larger role than normal.
The wide melodic leaps in the Pater Profundus role present particular challenges to the bass soloist.
13) There is concern about the specific use of MELODIC on structural data.
The ultimate development of free jazz is free improvisation, which combines all these qualities using no fixed instrumental roles or harmonic, rhythmic, or melodic structures and abandoning composition altogether.
Allmusic's Johnny Loftus wrote that "While it expands on melodic elements that had previously played a supporting role in the band's sound, Blackout also delivers truckloads of crushing guitar and pounding rhythm.
Factor 5 was renamed 'melodic skills' because only melodic, not linguistic, aspects of prosody play a role in these two tasks.
These tests measure prosodic and melodic perception and production, and their use for linguistic disambiguation.
But a powerful, otherworldly duet between Offred and her double, the singer who takes on her role in the Time Before flashbacks, is warmly melodic and disturbingly unique; the Handmaids' choral scenes, haunting and uncanny, cast a definite spell.
