When little melodic fragments come along, they sound in this context like major occurrences.

Each word seems to evoke from the orchestra a specific gesture, riff, chord series or melodic fragment.

This 13-minute meditation on a melodic fragment has no beginning, middle or end, and yet it moves.

Based on chords of the open fifth, with short, irregular, asymmetrically grouped melodic fragments playing off one another.

Scale passages and melodic fragments impart a deceptive sense of tonality.

There were brilliant moments, melodic fragments of great beauty, but the structure had no logic.

A melodic fragment expanded and took shape inside her.

Coming from the pit, these utterances alternate with brief melodic fragments and whirs.

As has been noted, Rossini borrowed melodic fragments from some of his previous works.

The structure is similar to the first movement, with two contrasting subjects linked together by interludes of melodic fragments and modulations.