(a.) Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young children also are sensitive to melodic contour over transformations that preserve it (Study 5), yet they distinguish spontaneously between melodies with the same contour and different intervals (Study 4).
(2) The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate adult Ineraid and Nucleus cochlear implant (CI) users' perceptual accuracy for melodic and rhythmic patterns, and quality ratings for different musical instruments.
(3) "Huff was maybe sweeter and more melodic," Gamble agrees, warming to my notion that he was maybe the Lennon to Huff's McCartney.
(4) Melodic themes of target melodies were defined by correlating contour-related pitch accents with temporal accents (accent coupling) during an initial familiarization phase.
(5) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
(6) Experimental Series 2 showed that temporal and melodic parameters such as speed, rhythm, pitch range, and melodic structure also have clear and consistent effects on perceived urgency.
(7) But really, was this state of mind so alien from that of the composers who, at the turn of the 19th century and in the first decades of the 20th, sought to overturn the enlightenment conception of western classical music, with its formal properties of rhythmic, harmonic and melodic structure?
(8) Their eponymous debut, a melodic blend of guitar pop and dance beats released in 1989, is still regarded by many as one of the great first albums.
(9) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).
(10) Expectations based on both familiarity and predictability were found to reduce restoration at the melodic level.
(11) By then, she was experimenting with a singing voice that was softer and more melodic than the harsh Jamaican patois she spat on the garage tracks.
(12) His flow is sick and the narratives he can weave over tough and gritty but surprisingly melodic beats are often nothing short of breathtaking.
(13) As this procedure proved not useful in this case, an adaptation of Melodic Intonation Therapy (signing plus an intoned rather than spoken verbal stimulus) was tried.
(14) The melodic pattern repeats itself several times throughout, then you have a mid eight, and for me the most thrilling part is the reprise, those rising notes, and then it hits the top.
(15) Global timing patterns reflected the hierarchical grouping structure of the composition, with pronounced ritardandi at the ends of major sections and frequent expressive lengthening of accented tones within melodic gestures.
(16) Many adult listeners are also able to consistently adjust two successive pure tones "one octave apart," which shows that they possess melodic octave templates.
(17) With Russians, what you see is a melodic thread in their dancing, an upper-body expressiveness that brings out another side of the work.
(18) Church's biggest hit – the melodic rock anthem Springsteen – has more in common with its titular hero than Nashville.
(19) Categorical perception was investigated in a series of experiments on the perception of melodic musical intervals (sequential frequency ratios).
(20) The relationship between melodic and text singing was also discussed.
Thematic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.
(n.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thematic analysis of the dream series supports Jung's conceptualization of death and dying as being a critical stage of the individuation process, characterized by profound psychical development of a specific and purposeful nature.
(2) They failed, however, to assign thematic roles and adjectives in center-embedded relative sentences, and instead relied on nonsyntactic information.
(3) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
(4) Observing the temporal order in which patients pointed to the words they recognized permitted an assessment of the extent to which they clustered their responses either in terms of superordinate categories or along thematic lines.
(5) The fear is palpable in this place.” A cornerstone of the reforms is a restructuring around more than a dozen thematic “global practices” like health or trade, instead of regional teams.
(6) Thirdly we investigate his comprehension of semantically and thematically related nouns and verbs.
(7) Both arguments draw on subject matter in psychoanalysis, physics, evolutionary biology, common-sense psychology, history, and medicine to arrive at a fundamental caveat for all of the sciences: Even when the thematic kinship (or so-called "meaning connection") between events is indeed of very high degree, this fact itself does not license the inference of a causal linkage between these events.
(8) Concerning psychopathology probands with religious thematization in their psychosis had higher values of "grandiosity" in the IMPS (LORR), had more often experiences of immediate inspiration, evidence and clearness.
(9) A retrospective evaluation of stories told to three Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards by children at risk isolated six characteristics that were associated with functioning six to 10 years later.
(10) The various forms that these dreams take and their characteristic thematic content were described for 154 dreams by 60 dreamers.
(11) "Contagion from Greece is what I would call thematic," says Michael Saunders, an economist at Citigroup.
(12) Using a structured thematic apperception technique (the Tell-Me-A-Story [TEMAS] test) to measure attention to pictorial stimuli depicting characters, events, settings, and covert psychological conflicts, a study was conducted with 152 normal and 95 clinical Hispanic, Black, and White school-age children.
(13) Transfer of reasoning occurred from both initial problem types, particularly to problems of the same type; however, transfer occurred to a greater extent from abstract problems than from thematic problems.
(14) The new movie marks a partial return to the thematic territory of Rosetta , which concerned a teenage girl scrabbling around for menial jobs.
(15) Over the past year, more than a million people have taken part in 88 national consultations, 11 thematic debates and the global My World survey , organised by the UN, to share their views on future development priorities.
(16) Utilizing thematic predictors derived from cognitive and psychodynamic theories of depression, depressed subjects were differentiated from nondepressed subjects at a rate significantly greater than chance, p less than .001, with a highly respectable estimate of cross-validation shrinkage.
(17) Also, the thematic apperception test and Rorschach test as well as electroencephalographic examinations have been carried out on many of the patients included in this study.
(18) There are also connections with the Dark Tower series: the Overlook's Red Eye Lounge, some thematic concepts regarding the use and gathering of psychics, the suggestion that Danny's imaginary friend could be one of the Dark Tower's Twinners.
(19) In 2007 he was a convincing lead in Puppet Rapist , a five-part mock-cop show also scripted by Ford, which shares thematic stomping ground with Robot & Frank.
(20) Personality development as measured by Loevinger's Washington University Sentence Completion Test, The Friedman Developmental Level Scoring System for the Rorschach, The Urist Mutuality of Autonomy Scale, The Thematic Apperception Test, and indexes from a structured interview were able to discriminate between teenagers at high- and low-risk for pregnancy.