This simple melodic and harmonic progression had served as an inspiration for many baroque composers, and would be used by later romantic and post-romantic composers.

An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and / or development of a composition, so that it fully represents the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structure " ( Corozine 2002, p. 3 ).

His next important breakthrough was in the Opus 33 string quartets ( 1781 ), where the melodic and the harmonic roles segue among the instruments: it is often momentarily unclear what is melody and what is harmony.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Guitarists in the fusion realm fused the post-bop harmonic and melodic language of musicians such as John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman, and Miles Davis with a hard-edged ( and usually very loud ) rock tone created by iconic guitarists such as Cream's Eric Clapton who'd redefined the sound of the guitar for those unfamiliar with the black blues players of Chicago and, before that, the Delta region of the Mississippi upon whom his style was based.

... There are other tendencies ( perhaps also traceable to the use of a guitar as a composing instrument ) – pedal-point harmonies, root motion by diatonic step, modal harmonic and melodic organization – that point away from functional tonality and toward a tonal sense that is less directional, more free-floating.

Adriana Lecouvreur is the opera of Cilea which is best known to international audiences today, and it reveals the spontaneity of a melodic style drawn from the Neapolitan school combined with harmonic and tonal shading influenced by French composers such as Massenet.

The rhythm section, being the core metronomic foundation with which other melodic instruments, including voices, may present the harmonic / melodic portion of the material.

His symphonies deliberately followed a pattern, each one building on the achievements of its predecessors .... His melodic and harmonic style changed little, and it had as much of Schubert in it as of Wagner .... His technique in the development and transformation of themes, learnt from Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner, was unsurpassed, and he was almost the equal of Brahms in the art of melodic variation.

** It can occur in both melodic and harmonic lines ; however, it is subject to certain restraints.

For his later works with Hofmannsthal, Strauss moderated his harmonic language: he used a more lush, melodic late-Romantic style based on Wagnerian chromatic harmonies that he had used in his tone poems, with much less dissonance, and exhibiting immense virtuosity in orchestral writing and tone color.

The main melodic theme uses the same notes, but revolves around a different harmonic progression, resulting in greater chordal interest ( less repetitive ).

The variations spring from the theme's melodic, harmonic and ( especially ) rhythmic elements, and the extended fourteenth variation forms a grand finale.

Like his contemporary, the Finn Jean Sibelius, he studied Renaissance polyphony closely, which accounts for much of the melodic and harmonic " feel " of his music.

Nancarrow's first pieces combined the harmonic language and melodic motifs of early jazz pianists like Art Tatum with extraordinarily complicated metrical schemes.

This style comprises two parts: a langorous vein of slow, sinuous melody with ornamentation and slow-moving harmonic progressions, contrasted with a more ecstatic vein marked by a perpetuum mobile at a fast tempo and rapid melodic contours over a slower-moving harmonic changes.

Rhapsody in Blue displays Gershwin ’ s gifts of both rhythmic invention and melodic inspiration, as well as his ability to write a piece with large-scale harmonic and melodic structure.

According to the review by Marc Greilsamer, " All of the trademark Tatum elements are here: the grand melodic flourishes, the harmonic magic tricks, the flirtations with various tempos and musical styles.

Zwilich's compositional style is marked by an obsession with " the idea of generating an entire work – large-scale structure, melodic and harmonic language, and developmental processes – from its initial motives.

** musical texture, the way the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic materials are combined in a composition

Jazz guitarists often try to imbue their melodic phrasing with the sense of natural breathing and legato phrasing used by horn players such as saxophone players.

Severinsen certainly had a well-developed high-note range with an incredible amount of control and melodic sense.

Simpler styles of music may be more or less wholly defined at this level of form, which therefore does not differ greatly from the loose sense first mentioned and which may carry with it rhythmic, harmonic, timbral, occasional and melodic conventions.

Jazz guitarists often try to imbue their melodic phrasing with the sense of natural breathing and legato phrasing used by horn players such as saxophone players.

Apart from an innate sense of orchestration, his musical language is based on a strong musical architecture as well as drama, with long melodic phrases and a natural instinct for structural development.

They were known for their conspicuous radical left politics, and for a strong melodic sense that earned them the nickname " punk rock Everly Brothers ".

While they do not pursue the simplifiying approach of Fayrfax ( an almost exact contemporary of Cornysh junior, and fellow at Court and Chapel ), and remain in a more old-fashioned florid melodic style, they adopt proto-madrigalian manners ( for example in the setting of words like " clamorosa ", " crucifige " and " debellandum " in the Stabat mater ) and have a particularly developed sense of tonal movement ( for example, in the Stabat mater, the closing " Amen " features deliberate use of F sharps as leading notes to give a sense of tonal cadence into G, or employing E flats at " Sathanam " to give a tonal cadence onto B flat, emphasizing the " strong " nature of the text at that moment, employing the bass-movement V-I ), as well as adopting a more modern sense of the expressive apoggiatura in melodic shapes and in bringing out the stresses of the Latin by such devices ( for example, again the Stabat mater, the use of apoggiaturas in the Bassus part to express " ContriSTANtem et doLENtem " in the first few measures, and again at " Contemplari doLENtem cum filio?

Serge Gut ( 1981, p. 150 ), argues that, " if one focuses essentially on melodic motion, one sees how its dynamic force creates a sense of an appoggiatura each time, that is, at the beginning of each measure, creating a mood both feverish and tense ... thus in the soprano motif, the G and the A are heard as appoggiaturas, as the F and D in the initial motif.

In musical set theory or atonal theory, complement is used in both the sense above ( in which the perfect fourth is the complement of the perfect fifth, 5 + 7 = 12 ), and in the additive inverse sense of the same melodic interval in the opposite direction-e. g.

Around that time, Kai's vocal style became more melodic and slightly clearer, more in the traditional power metal sense, while still retaining the slight nasal tone and rasp of his early years.

However, the online video series Orchestration Online refutes Bernstein's assertion that Beethoven was deficient in melodic ability ( i. e. the famous and almost one-note melody of the second movement of the Seventh Symphony ), harmonic ability, orchestration ability, and counterpoint ability, as well as Bernstein's assertion that the only thing that made Beethoven greater than any other composer who ever lived was his almost superhuman sense of form.

South of Heaven featured " more technical " guitar riffs, utilizing the aforementioned tremolo picking and down-picked notes, improving musicianship while retaining a melodic sense.

Her degree completed, she returned to Tuva where she became a member of Sayani, the Tuvan state folk ensemble, before abandoning it to return to Moscow and joining the experimental Tri-O, where her vocal talents and sense of melodic and harmonic adventure could wander freely.

The album demonstrated The Bled's skills in both a lyrical sense and music sense as the band incorporated a wide variety of genres including metalcore, mathcore, melodic hardcore, and post hardcore.

The Lucksmiths were an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia known for witty, intelligent lyrics, a strong melodic sense and a jangly pop sound harkening back to early-1980s bands such as The Smiths and The Go-Betweens.

This form of communication involves melodic, rhythmic and movement patterns as well as the communication of intention and meaning, and in this sense is similar to music.

Since polyphonic texture was no longer the main focus of music ( excluding the development section ) but rather a single melodic line with accompaniment, there was greater emphasis on notating that line for dynamics and phrasing.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Additionally, scholars such as Margot Fassler and Marianna Richert Pfau describe Hildegard's music as highly melismatic, often with recurrent melodic units, and also note her close attention to the relationship between music and text, which was a rare occurrence in monastic chant of the twelfth century.

It was not until the large-scale emergence of small combo jazz in the post-WWII period that the guitar took as a versatile instrument, which was used both in the rhythm section and as a featured melodic instrument and solo improviser.

She was also attracted to the music of more mainstream artists like Olivia Newton-John and The Police, perhaps explaining the contrast in her later music between sweet, melodic " pop " songs and more hard rock oriented material.

Although the group's early work was essentially punk-oriented, they quickly settled into a sunny, melodic, and slightly jangly pop style reminiscent in style of early R. E. M.

This dance music genre, not to be confused with improvised freestyle rapping, was dominated, at the time, by electro funk beats and vaguely Latin melodic and percussion elements, over which Latino vocalists sang melodramatic pop vocals, usually in English.

The objective was to achieve a sound similar to the human voice, through carefully arranged compositions and by emphasizing a relaxed, melodic approach to the improvisations.

The prevailing style of the group was a development of the Davis experience in the previous years — Davis playing long, legato, and essentially melodic lines, while Coltrane, who during these years emerged as a leading figure on the musical scene, contrasted by playing high-energy solos.

In the early 1980s, some of the leading bands in Southern California's hardcore punk rock scene emphasized a more melodic approach than was typical of their peers.

In the United States, bands such as Hüsker Dü and their Minneapolis protégés The Replacements bridged the gap between punk rock genres like hardcore and the more melodic, explorative realm of what was then called " college rock ".

Typically using slow-to-mid tempo and featuring low-tuned guitars in a bass-heavy sound, with melodic vocals, and ' retro ' production, it was pioneered by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep.

He worked extensively in experimental jazz and dabbled in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured.

Their approach was similar to classical music ; each instrument played its own melodic line to generate a grand musical theme.

The Stranglers ' early sound was driven by Jean-Jacques Burnel's melodic bass, but also gave prominence to Dave Greenfield's keyboards at a time when the instrument was seen as unfashionable.

Some European copies of the album also credit Donny Rose on keyboards ( the song, " Shut Down ," was recorded live in the studio, and features a melodic, two-fisted piano ).

The album was described as their most " psychedelic and melodic to date ".

In early orchestral music, the viola part was frequently limited to filling in harmonies and little melodic material was assigned to it.