| In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Ukrainian music sometimes presents a perplexing mix of exotic melismatic singing with chordal harmony. |
| Its melismatic horizontality and elegant ornaments probably make this music the quintessence of all these regional musics. |
| 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. |
