Typical formal schemes include ABC, BC, "'AABC "', and ABC and each section uses a tile type melodic contour.
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Color, shape, and texture are used to convey high-level musical features such as timbre, melodic contour, and harmonic tension.
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Since each of the speech sections employs only one brief sample, its melodic contour must generate the entire contrapuntal texture.
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A jazz musician finding new melodic contours and rhythmic ideas in an old chart is an artist who plumbs feelings.
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This two-hour work draws on the melodic contours and instrumental colors of Yiddish folk music, as well as Jewish liturgical chant.
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While agreeing that it may please some listeners, " it offers no experience with the rhythms, melodic contours and textures of modern music.
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The singer adjusts to various pitch levels and melodic contours of the tune in accordance with the corresponding linguistic features of the text.
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The second subject group consists of two alternating themes : the first is mournful and plaintive, featuring some of the melodic contours from the introduction.
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As is common in P�rt's choral works, the melodic contour of the M-voice is subject to a kind of compositional serialization based directly on the text.
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With its mystical overtones of spiritual synthesis, the number three dictates rhythmic and melodic contours throughout the opera as well as influencing choices of harmony and orchestration.
