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  • for the time while often subtle and melodic. Armstrong's playing ... tone and an extraordinary talent for melodic improvisation. Through his ...
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  • More and more, the trumpet began to use flexible melodic lines, mimicking the saxophone. Roy Eldridge is universally recognized as having played ...
    9 KB (1,351 words) - 02:28, 17 December 2022
  • wind or string instruments to carry the melodic part of the ensemble. Like ... a sequence of gongs, looking for a melodic contour they are familiar ...
    41 KB (6,102 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
  • album Out of Time, most notably as the lead melodic instrument on the wordless song "Endgame," as well as on four tracks of their 1992 album ...
    18 KB (2,745 words) - 19:53, 17 November 2022
  • harmonic inflections, and the more unusual melodic and rhythmic inflections ... statable either as a chord or as a melodic figure or as a combination ...
    18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
  • also had a tonal aspect to it that lends a natural melodic quality to the recitation. The Greek language is particularly well-suited to this metrical ...
    9 KB (1,478 words) - 18:41, 26 July 2023
  • Hopkins' often composed impromptu lyrics and melodic variations. No two sets by him were ever the same. He was a fluent stage performer whose banter ...
    8 KB (1,334 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
  • Karnataka Sangeetha ragas characterized by melodic patterns called mattu, and ... Yakshagana ragas are the melodic modes used in yakshagana, based on ...
    30 KB (4,418 words) - 10:04, 22 May 2023
  • Vaughan-Williams' works integrate the melodic and harmonic properties ... yet deep and mystical as well as lyrical, melodic, melancholic, and nostalgic ...
    18 KB (2,733 words) - 00:30, 8 December 2022
  • lovely hair." Zenobia possessed a strong, melodic voice and many charms. She was well educated and knew Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, and Latin. Some ...
    10 KB (1,554 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
  • used. The performance is set to a melodic pattern ([[raga]] or raag ... Carnatic music is completely melodic, with improvised variations. ...
    31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
  • of "moaning" is a style of melodic expression common to Negro ... drum music, are extant, as is a melodic, syncopated dance music ...
    20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
  • of the twentieth century. By incorporating the melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and structural characteristics of Spanish music into his compositions, Falla ...
    10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
  • Mahler's, employed highly independent melodic lines. It is regarded as ... Slonimsky, whose Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns influenced not ...
    21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
  • late in his life. Most of his work is lushly melodic and has often been described as neo-romantic, though some of his later works, notably the Third ...
    10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
  • Hampton would produce long, lightning-fast melodic patterns without ever losing his balance. At times, he would also play complex chords (as ...
    10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
  • Hummel showed a preference for the expressive melodic lines of the Classical style with wider ranges of pitch, dynamics and tone color. To Johann Hummel ...
    12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
  • orchestrated, "Otello" lacks the melodic luster, the trademark of ... masterful, Verdi relied heavily on his melodic gift as the ultimate instrument ...
    21 KB (3,371 words) - 14:28, 22 May 2024
  • plot-driving passages often sung in a non-melodic style characteristic of ... #039;s twelve-tone technique with melodic passages of a more traditionally ...
    38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
  • balungan instruments and only sometimes other melodic instruments (such as gambang and gendér). In the Yogyakarta kraton, where the dance is no longer ...
    12 KB (1,955 words) - 10:21, 26 September 2023

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