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Melisma (Ancient Gr****: μέλισμα,
mélisma, lit. 'song'; from μέλος, melos, 'song, melody', plural: melismata) is the
singing of a
single syllable of text...
- 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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revolutionizing the
usage of
distinguished vocal stylings including that of
melisma and the
whistle register.
Noted as the
forerunner of both techniques, journalists...
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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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first recording for her then-label Jive in 1997. The
prominent use of
melisma and
vibrato as she
continuously raises key into a high
range was viewed...
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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...
- Grande's
voice "can be silky,
breathy or cutting,
swooping through long
melismas or
jabbing out
short R&B phrases; it's
always supple and airborne, never...
- of the
Boston Herald remarked: "For
every hand-fluttering, overwrought,
melisma addict out
there aping Mariah's dog calls, there's an
equal number trying...
- pla**** one
after another,
sometimes overlapping.
melancolico Melancholic melisma The
technique of
changing the note (pitch) of a
syllable of text while...
- "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...
