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- noun music A focus on the development of
melody
Etymologies
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Examples
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Flashiness is always rated higher than the melodicism he specializes in.
Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011
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Flashiness is always rated higher than the melodicism he specializes in.
Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011
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As attractive as their worldly melodicism is, it's hard to imagine an English-speaking act getting away with generalizations as simplistic as: hypocrisy in politics, it's not good, we don't want any.
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Her work is itself a series of contradictions, its repetitive, haunting fugues are undercut constantly by a playful melodicism which might then grow more discordant and frenetic, all morphing naturally, unfolding from itself.
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As attractive as their worldly melodicism is, it's hard to imagine an English-speaking act getting away with generalizations as simplistic as: hypocrisy in politics, it's not good, we don't want any.
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Through his many years of genre-bending melodicism with Mr. Costello – from staccato punk to Farfisa soul to their most recent incarnation as a kind of post-punk cabaret duo – Mr. Nieve has grown to embrace the somewhat silly moniker.
Costello Sideman Steve Nieve: Now He Has a Trio of His Own 1999
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Their marriage, and her absorption into the band as a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, beginning with the excellent Perverted By Language, helped shift the Fall from droning, atonal minimalism to droning, atonal melodicism.
The Fall 1999
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Brandi Carlile Monday The delicate falsetto of Ms. Carlile lends itself beautifully to country-pop melodicism and spare acoustic backing.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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The New York Times wrote that "The team's finest songs are marked by a contemporary conversational fluency and precision of phrase, joined to a graceful Old World melodicism that looks back often wistfully to the turn-of-the-century operetta."
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Asphyx and Unleashed have bludgeoned with mid-paced power chords for decades, and Incantation already perfected dark, murky tones and chromatic melodicism.
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