The speaker was a beautiful brown-haired woman with a melodic Scottish accent whom Decker had never met, but who he somehow knew was his great-great-grandmother.

She had a wonderfully melodic British accent.

The art of contouring brings life everywhere: each phrase has its direction; the placement of melodic and rhythmic accents is deftly varied.

Fortunately, my hiking companion was homegrown and spoke in the soft, melodic accents that I've come to appreciate.

The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats.

"He's against welfare," said Pierre Dupuis, a retiree who speaks in the melodic Cajun accent of the bayou country here.

The main themes have the rhythmic and melodic accent of a Celtic reel.

"In Italy, each person has more of them," the young man said in a melodic accent, not wanting to name any names, including his own.

The central Larghetto movement has the formal straightforwardness of a Bach work tempered with a decidedly Russian melodic accent.

The melodic accents of the Baba-Nonya and their particular turns of phrase lead to the charm of this performance.