Meanings of melodic line in English

So would the seamless match of words to melodic line.

I wanted the word to be able to find its own sound, to draw its own melodic line.

He played the adagio movement first, lingering on the graceful phrases, the swell and rise of the melodic line.

He's the man who carried classical harmonies and a simplicity of melodic line into the dark heart of romantic sensibility.

Compare the wall of pounding, resonant percussion heard in Man of Steel to the peppy melodic line from Driving Miss Daisy.

The Adagio, with its broad, solemn melodic line, is, as a whole-anddespite passages of burning pain-eloquentof comfort and grace.

Music continued to be polyphonic, but became simpler, with a single melodic line (L. van Beethoven, contemporary with Mozart).

The bassoon concerto was an opportunity to create an extended work exploring the melodic line, and to push the limits of Ben's exquisite upper register.

They weave poetry with melodic lines for a live performance in the Wellington studio.

All players have an opportunity to embrace fervent melodic lines as the accompanying roles are passed around the ensemble.

One of his studies for player piano consists of no fewer than 12 melodic lines, each progressing at a different tempo.

Grating and grinding effects reminiscent of Xenakis are juxtaposed with melodic lines sliding in patterns that can uncannily evoke vocal inflections.

The prime melodic talents are wild fiddler Rudy Velghe, and crystalline box-player Raquel Gigot, shivering great rhythmic ornament out of the main melodic lines.

French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet approaches the music with light fingers, crisp articulation, an airy approach to phrasing, and a readiness to embellish melodic lines.

It showcased their style, with fast melodic lines on banjo, tin whistle and accordion set against a punchy electric bass and stripped-down drum kit.

The stately Andante proves elusive -both harmonically and texturally -and hints playfully at Baroque counterpoint (two or more coalescing melodic lines).