However, they were not the regular, symmetrical melodic shapes that worked well with sonata form.

Text has a melodic shape, which I simply took dictation from.

The sets of notes and melodic shapes are associated with specific moods.

Its range is only nine notes of the scale, compared with 12 notes for the other song, and it has a pleasing melodic shape.

The two inner movements are strikingly similar in form, rhythm and melodic shape.

With its allusions to early jazz rhythms and melodic shapes, it makes for a pleasant if not especially challenging eight minutes.

While "Company" dares to have melodic shapes, most people writing opera now seem terrified of even trying.

After a similar old game in the introduction, obscurely flashing the melodic shape, he all but disappeared.

Moss is a pidgin built out of melodic shapes.

Equally reliable are the melodic shape and its delivery, with little variation, often none.