The modal system worked like the scales of today, insomuch that it provided the rules and material for melodic writing.

The English syllables bump awkwardly against Monteverdi's graceful melodic writing.

The following rules apply to melodic writing in each species, for each part:

He has a gift for elegiac melodic writing, yet an ability to set words with snappy clarity.

The melodic writing is extraordinary, and each section of the piece took advantage of pearl-like songs, wrapping them in dense orchestrations.

The same sense of naturalness extends to Mr. Nascimento's melodic writing.

Mussorgsky's melodic writing is steeped in the melancholic idiom of Russian folk music.

He assimilated popular influences in a simple and straightforward style aimed at communicating with his audiences through an emphasis on clear, accessible, melodic writing.

Here he shows a gift for melodic writing and laces his tonal language with shards of dissonance and jazzy riffs.

A primary feature is the melodic writing for the timpani, which shows the instrument's expressive range extending into areas of surprising lyricism.