Sentence examples for speech melody from inspiring English sources

Their voices both inspire Mr. Reich's score and merge with it, appearing sometimes in slow motion, sometimes frozen in midair, so that an isolated fragment of their speech melody fuses with the general harmony.

Five years later came the extravagantly ambitious video opera "The Cave," his first collaboration with Ms. Korot, in which Palestinian Muslims, Israeli Jews and Americans discussed the significance of Abraham on large projection screens as live musicians doubled their "speech melody".

This study was conducted to investigate the connectivity architecture of neural structures involved in processing of emotional speech melody (prosody).

"When we speak, we have a speech melody and rhythm – and it's here they have changes," says Blumstein.

Finally, one reviewer asked whether it is possible in the future to provide more direct evidence for the integration of segmental intonation in the perception of speech melody.

Microintonation component of speech melody can be supposed to be a random, band-pass signal described by its spectrum and statistical parameters.

The revision reflects Janacek's interest in "speech melodies," vocal lines that preserve the inflections of spoken Czech.

Such moments recalled Scott Johnson's "Worth Having" from the first half, a piece in which four musicians pick up speech melodies from recorded voices.

Anna Clyne Composer What has really inspired me is Reich's sense of form and development from rhythmic and harmonic cells, and his use of electronics and speech melodies, particularly on Different Trains.

For longer than that too, in the pieces like City Life and the string-quartet Different Trains, he had been working with the techniques of sampling and speech melodies from which much of the music for the video operas derives.

The Triple Quartet is in three linked movements, and it is worlds away from Reich's earlier string quartet, Different Trains (1988), in which the use of taped voices (whose speech melodies provide the thematic material) led directly to the first of his video operas, The Cave.