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Melisma (‹See Tfd›Gr****: μέλισμα,
mélisma, lit. 'song'; from μέλος, melos, 'song, melody', plural: melismata) is the
singing of a
single syllable of text...
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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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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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music industry.
Carey has also been
credited for po****rizing the use of
melisma amongst her
peers and the
generation after her, and has
often been considered...
- 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...
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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...
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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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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...
