Sometimes his playing sounded constrained and got smudgy: even the simple melodic turns in the slow theme of the Largo were uneven.

Yet Mr. Serkin is attentive to every unusual harmonic and melodic turn.

The familiar idiom is infused with original touches of harmony, orchestration and melodic turn.

But his music rarely turns generic; each song has an unexpected harmony, a supple melodic turn, a gleaming guitar line or a flourish of horns.

Weill's adamant musical simplicity manages unusual melodic turns even in the most constricted of formats.

The performer of the alapa gradually introduces the essential notes and melodic turns of the raga to be performed.

The work, an eclectic effort, has some lovely moments - original melodic turns, interesting chromaticism, heavenly eight-part choral writing.

Much of the narrative woven between those moments was couched in the bluesy timbres and melodic turns of jazz.

Yet there is also an undercurrent of jazz harmonies and melodic turns that gives his music an unmistakably American accent.

Others walk in elegant, airy melodic turns recalling Pat Metheny compositions.