What's the difference between melodic and tunable?
Melodic
Definition:
(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.
Tunable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful.
Example Sentences:
(1) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
(2) Tunable-dye laser lithotripsy appears superior to the ultrasonic device for percutaneous treatment of bile duct stones.
(3) A low power, argon-pumped tunable dye laser was used to deliver yellow light of 577 nm.
(4) Phototropic and light growth responses of the sporangiophore of Phycomyces have been elicited using tunable laser stimulation from 575 to 630 nm.
(5) We have previously shown in normal human skin that pulsed yellow tunable dye lasers (577-nm wavelength) can cause highly selective damage to cutaneous microvessels with minimal injury to the overlying epidermis.
(6) The authors present a randomized study of 27 eyes affected by pathological myopia with macular subretinal neovascularization which were treated with a tunable dye laser.
(7) We have modified a FACS I by addition of a tunable dye laser and an optical system for fluorescence detection that allows physically independent measurement of green and red immunofluorescence.
(8) Adult male rats were partially hepatectomized leading to removal of two-thirds of the organ and the lateral lobe exposed to Argon (514 nm, 270 mW-3.0 W for up to 120 s; tunable dye, 630 nm, 200 and 500 mW for up to 240 s) and Nd:YAG (1064 nm; 3-8 W, 60-180 s) lasers.
(9) We used a pulsed tunable dye laser (operating at 60 mJ per pulse, 504-nm wavelength) to fragment large (0.8-4.5 cm) stones retained in the hepatic ducts or common bile duct in 12 patients after cholecystectomy.
(10) The recently introduced pulsed flash-lamp pumped tunable dye laser is used to treat cutaneous port-wine stains.
(11) The authors reported previously a new technique using a low power argon-pumped tunable dye laser at a wave-length of 577nm (yellow light) to treat port-wine stains in adults.
(12) A flashlamp-pumped tunable dye laser operating at a wavelength of 504 nm (coumarin green) was used as the laser source.
(13) Three patients with symptomatic intra- and extrahepatic choledocholithiasis who were not good candidates for retrograde endoscopy, surgery, or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) were treated successfully with endoscopically guided tunable dye laser lithotripsy via a 12-F transhepatic sheath.
(14) We conclude that epidermal melanin and vascular hemoglobin are competing sites for 577 nm laser absorption and damage, and that the target specificity of the 577 nm tunable dye laser is therefore influenced by variations in epidermal pigmentation.
(15) Its main features are (1) spark gap generator with large ellipsoid, with tunable power for treatments with or without analgesia; (2) localization by fluoroscopy and ultrasounds without moving the patient; (3) isocentric variation of shock wave window, and (4) multifunctional table.
(16) The tunable dye laser (577 nm) has been shown to cause selective vascular destruction in normal and PWS skin.
(17) The irradiation source was derived from a tunable organic-dye laser utilizing rhodamine 6G (590 plus or minus 5 nm) solutions as lasing media.
(18) Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectra have been obtained for ferrocytochrome c and cyano cobalamin in aqueous solution at millimolar concentrations, using a pair of tunable dye lasers pumped by a pulsed nitrogen laser.
(19) The tunable nature of the source (which allows selective optimization of anomalous contributions to the scattering factors) and the low angular divergence of the beam make the source very useful for single crystal protein diffraction studies.
(20) We describe the modifications made in adapting a Jena 5,000 photocoagulator to a tunable dye laser power source and discuss the principles of the tunable dye laser.