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melodic line

NOUN
  1. a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
    she was humming an air from Beethoven

How To Use melodic line In A Sentence

  • Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths.
  • On "San Bernardino," about a couple who give birth in a bathtub in a highway-side motel, cellist Erik Friedlander sent back a score that layered urgent pizzicato over a languid melodic line. Rock Stories: Mountain Goats
  • The use of a cantus firmus was not essential, while big intervals in the melodic lines, chromaticism and homophony in crucial places were all allowed to help the understanding of the words. Archive 2009-06-01
  • They stammer out their glissandi woes in a sort of fugal chaos, with the orchestra and its chorus washing over them with dark chords and fraying melodic lines. Pilar Jurado's Blank Page
  • It is a great accomplishment in singing to take the melodic line up to a position of energy and hold it there.
  • A section for pizzicato strings suspended over creepy melodic lines for piano and Celesta seemed to turn the orchestra into a giant, threatening insect.
  • Scott and Dankworth were blown away by the melodic lines of modern jazz and its soulful use of chord substitutions, ninths and flattened fifths.
  • It is a great accomplishment in singing to take the melodic line up to a position of energy and hold it there.
  • The final movement has some pounding drums with trumpets and some more contrapuntal blending of melodic lines.
  • Burstein captured every subtle variation of the melodic line with scintillating brio and vivacity.
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