The band played its modal melody with furious momentum.
The modal melodies of chant provide unusual sounds to ears attuned to modern scales.
Traditional folk music provides countless examples of modal melodies.
The first call is a modal melody in B-flat major of six measures, the second call is similar but reaching up higher.
Its finale, grounded in the rhythms and modal melodies of Indian music, was original and effective.
His instrumental language is filled with modal melodies, whole-tone movement, touches of American folk art and some bitter dissonances.
Floating above the instruments, her short modal melodies can become urgent cries as a song progresses.
The harmonies supporting the modal melodies are tonal and fairly straightforward.
The tune shown in the manuscript here is a simple modal melody.
He paused often to comment on the varying rhythm patterns, the assonantal rhymes, and the modal melodies.