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Or sometimes I just get up and start singing with them, either scatting or making a counter-melody and … BLOCK: And that's not something you do?
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Lindberg's accompaniment is its most effective when he aims less for power and more for counter-melody, like in From-Olle no.
Draupner, Arvet (Caprice Records, 2003) smg58 2006
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When the driving percussive interplay meets Kleszcz's deep, scraping power chords on cello, with the two fiddlers hammering out melody and counter-melody and the dulcimer providing just the right amount of ambience, the very earth moves with them.
Archive 2006-09-01 smg58 2006
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Lindberg's accompaniment is its most effective when he aims less for power and more for counter-melody, like in From-Olle no.
Archive 2006-05-01 smg58 2006
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When the driving percussive interplay meets Kleszcz's deep, scraping power chords on cello, with the two fiddlers hammering out melody and counter-melody and the dulcimer providing just the right amount of ambience, the very earth moves with them.
Warsaw Village Band, Uprooting (Jaro, 2004) smg58 2006
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In fact, in a kind of ghostly echo, he heard them all night, whispering under the important conversation, a counter-melody of disdain.
The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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It's not even accessible - what newcomer on earth is going to be turned on to music by the information that the violin is playing a virtuoso figuration over a lyrical counter-melody?
BBC = undesirable A Level grades Jessica 2005
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It's not even accessible - what newcomer on earth is going to be turned on to music by the information that the violin is playing a virtuoso figuration over a lyrical counter-melody?
Archive 2005-07-01 Jessica 2005
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Then Kellen launched into a surging, rhythmic counter-melody.
Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995
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The old melody of good-humour is occasionally thrown off-key by a discordant counter-melody of irritability, pique, and cynicism.
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