"sweeping melody" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a melody that moves in a wide range. For example, "The orchestra's performance of the song featured a sweeping melody that filled the auditorium."
PAGE 1 GROUP THERAPY Coldplay's appeal lies mainly in the band's soaring hooks and sweeping melody.
The set closes with Return to Oz, a song as devastating as you might dream the conflation of David Bowie's Rock'n'roll Suicide and Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road could be; the majestic, sweeping melody carries the bitter story of how the drug crystal meth is destroying New York's gay nightlife.
The band kept the arrangement tight to preserve the song's dynamic, sweeping melody.
However in the track he's provided us with for today's LAYERS is a sweeping melody forever awaiting that beat drop, reaching the end and finding out the tale was never meant for it in the most satisfying way.
Well, first of all, it has a long, sweeping melody here in romantic music, a long, sweeping melody that is rather asymmetrical in shape.
After eight murky piano chords at the start, with a low, tolling left hand, a sweeping melody for strings takes over and you're instantly awash.
Distinguished by their shuffling rhythms, sweeping melodies and emotional candor, both songs became No. 1 country singles and crossed over to the pop chart.
Usher is one of the most compelling practitioners of an R&B subgenre that emphasizes details instead of generalizations, neat phrases instead of sweeping melodies.
But the album marks a distinct shift in musical style; gone are the strings and sweeping melodies, replaced by the pared-down but often richly layered sounds of guitar, bass and drums.
Georges Bizet's opera "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" (1863) is a classic example of nineteenth-century French exoticism: it paints a rosy picture of humble pearl fishers in the faraway land of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) with a perfumed, Gallic-sounding score whose sweeping melodies delight the ear.
A new song, "Heavenly... (Good Feeling)," criticized war in hackneyed terms that could turn the most hard-core dove into a hawk: "Why is it anyone has to die?/ Did they ever ask you why?" There were a few exceptions, notably "Kiss From a Rose," perhaps his best known song, an epic ballad full of sweeping melodies, unexpected shifts in phrases and fearlessly overblown lyrics.
