Sentence examples for wide leaps from inspiring English sources

Also the way she's thinking about melody is very original, with these wide leaps and chromatic dips.

Ms. Shelton sounded underpowered and sometimes struggled to navigate the wide leaps of the difficult and dramatic vocal line.

Singers are usually not capable of singing wide leaps, that is to say, notes that are far apart in range.

The songs were ballads, waltzes, marches and shiftier concoctions, placing her lustrous voice low and high, humble and insistent, sometimes gliding, sometimes making wide leaps.

They were taut, minimal constructions, full of wide leaps and sharp angles, using shards of blues, punk, metal and no-wave dissonance.

In previous pieces, including two featured on a superb 2011 Nonesuch CD, "Gra agus Bas," Mr. Dennehy has explored the expressive potential of sean nos, an Irish vocal tradition known for its plaintive tone, wide leaps and microtonal inflections.

The sudden pianos, the unexpected outbursts, the wide leaping arpeggio figures with concluding explosive effects (known as "Mannheim rockets")—all these are central to Beethoven's musical personality and were to help him toward the liberation of instrumental music from its dependence on vocal style.

While his phrasing usually resembled Charlie Parker's in rhythmic terms, Dolphy harmonically was given to wide, angular leaps and distant relations to fixed harmonic structures, so that his chromatic lines at times seemed to approach atonality.

The novel aspects of his style (melodic and harmonic fragmentation, wide intervallic leaps, unusual use of dissonance and timbres, ascetic sparseness of texture, and extreme conciseness of form) at first disconcerted those conditioned to the opulence of the late Romantic era (e.g., Richard Wagner operas, Anton Bruckner and Mahler symphonies, and Richard Strauss tone poems).

And while Ms. Stuart is perky enough as a rhymer, it's her singing -- switching between innocent and combative, making sudden wide melodic leaps, answering herself with tiny sound bites of choral vocals, imitating jungle birds -- that makes the songs ricochet so widely.

The wide melodic leaps in the Pater Profundus role present particular challenges to the bass soloist.