Mr. Waltzer is a young jazz pianist who is interested in a meaty, rhythmic sound, delicately exotic harmony and organized small-group composition with strong melodic motion.

There are 72 basic scales on the octave, and a rich variety of melodic motion.

The "popular" music resembles the highly active melodic motion of the choruses, featuring wide intervallic leaps and melodic range usually an octave to octave and a half.

Old Roman chants have intricate melodic motion within a narrow ambitus, with small repeating melodic motifs, which are common in the Italian chant traditions such as the Ambrosian and Beneventan.

This followed Scott Johnson's "John Somebody" of 1978, an early attempt to construct directed melodic motion by harmonising recorded speech.

Parsons code, a simple notation used to identify a piece of music through melodic motion-the motion of the pitch up and down.

According to Robert Erickson, "harmonic and melodic motion is curtailed, in order to focus attention on timbral and textural elements."

Tippett detected an absence of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic motion in the work.

In other words, "being composite" and "being incomposite" are attributes of the dynamic character of melodic motion.

The melodic motion is primarily stepwise, with a limited ambitus, giving the chants a smooth, undulating feel.