Unlike most country and bluegrass musicians, who thought of the guitar as a secondary instrument for providing rhythmic backup, Mr. Watson executed the kind of flashy, rapid-fire melodies normally played by a fiddle or a banjo.
Glinka's music is irresistible in its melody and rapid waltz pulse; the one male dancer and (especially) the three women spend much of the time airborne, with the downbeat of the waltz phrase often finding them already flying upward.
As repetitive patterns multiply and accelerate, swelling and fading in rapid succession, six-note melodies flicker out of nowhere.
This piece represents a typical nineteenth-century étude, similar in style to Frédéric Chopin's Études (Opp. 10, 25), with a melody interspersed between rapid sextuplet figures.
There was no finger picking at this show, but his plectrum style mixed melody lines with rapid-fire and often delicate strumming.
Marching in from the rear of the Peter B. Lewis Theater, with a video cameraman chasing him, Mr. Harding offered a gripping 13-minute soliloquy featuring rapid tonguing, daunting leaps, hissed melodies and the effects of three mutes extracted from pockets on his belt.
As different as their languages were, Prokofiev and Poulenc sounded as if they had been posed a similar challenge, which they met in recognizable terms: rapid scherzo movements or lovely melodies, Poulenc's thinner and tangy, Prokofiev's veritably romantic, so much so as to subvert and give poignant color to the broad humor of the second movement.
Carlsen played for the first time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament in Monte Carlo in March.
In March, Carlsen played for the second time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament, held in Nice for the first time.
Dolphy was a passionate musical abstractionist, stretching harmonies to near-atonality with ecstatic leaps and dives and frenetically rapid runs; his fervent tone wrenched melodies into cries.
