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Melisma (Gr****: μέλισμα,
mélisma, lit. 'song'; from μέλος, melos, 'song, melody', plural: melismata) is the
singing of a
single syllable of text while...
- may be
reduced and
smoothed out.
Contemporary R&B
vocalists often use
melisma, and
since the mid-1980s, R&B
rhythms have been
combined with elements...
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Melody Balungan Cadence Interval Melisma Melodic motion Motif Ornament Trill Pattern Phrasing Pitch Rhythm Sequence Steps and
skips Timbre Type...
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flexibly adjust itself to the
ornate melodic embellishments [including
melismas] of the
flamenco mode." The
exact chords depend on the song form (palo)...
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learning to sing wide
intervals comfortably,
singing trills,
singing melismas and
correcting vocal faults.
Vocal pedagogists instruct their students...
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MacDonald identified the
influence of
Indian classical music in "exotic
melismas in the b**** part" on "Rain" and
described the
playing as "so inventive...
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singing style, he added: "Her [Houston's]
stylistic trademarks –
shivery melismas that
ripple up in the
middle of a song,
twirling embellishments at the...
- once-ubiquitous
melisma pop
style was
heavily po****rized by
singers such as Carey.
Browne commented, "beginning [in 1990],
melisma overtook pop in a...
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trajectory into an
aerobatic spiral of leaping, quivering, and
scalloping melismas". Ron Fair—A&R
executive from RCA Records—was
impressed by her "perfect...
- "pitch-against-pitch" / "point-against-point" or "sustained-pitch" in one part with
melismas of
varying lengths in another. In all
cases the
conception was probably...
