| Gregorian and Old Roman offertories are melismatic responsorial chants, the majority taken from the psalms. |
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| In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting. |
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| Bach writes the subject in one huge, melismatic arc, and you're not supposed to break the line by gulping in air. |
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| The musical style of these songs varies from simple, syllabic melodies to elaborately flowing compositions modelled on melismatic plainchant. |
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| Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision. |
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| The swooping and soaring melody, very Eastern in its melismatic cut, is punctuated and embellished by the other three string instruments and by the piano. |
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| Its melismatic horizontality and elegant ornaments probably make this music the quintessence of all these regional musics. |
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| Music sung in this style is referred to as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, where each syllable of text is matched to a single note. |
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| In the second half of the aria, the voice breaks out into a rapturous melismatic line, still in company with the oboe, which superbly underlines the Soul's joyful embracing of the Lord. |
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| Mr. Neville favors the mellowest part of his range, rarely wheeling into his silvery falsetto, and carefully parceling out melismatic embellishments. |
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| Ukrainian music sometimes presents a perplexing mix of exotic melismatic singing with chordal harmony. |
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