Price's sonata is filled with poignant pentatonic melodies of obviously black derivation.

The composition starts out with a simple pentatonic melody, which transforms itself into a complex musical architecture.

The fragile indeterminacies flow easily into pentatonic melody, but they are arranged according to Western principles of imitating voices and developing ideas.

The piece begins with a soft, pentatonic melody before rushing into a more lively, syncopated dance.

With either modal or non-modal writing, however, the harmonization of a pentatonic melody does not necessarily have to be derived from only the pentatonic pitches.

The pentatonic melody, hinted in part B, returns (m649) and gets developed in the context of the round.

Do they become more so by a particularly forceful rendering of a little pentatonic melody, a particularly dense malleting of the tom-toms?

Mr. Garland's music does the same in starker, simpler terms - with pentatonic melody expressed largely in octaves and other wide intervals.

Booming pentatonic melody signals Mexico's pre-Columbian foundations.

Holy Manna is a pentatonic melody in Ionian mode.