| In the second half of the aria, the voice breaks out into a rapturous melismatic line, still in company with the oboe, which superbly underlines the Soul's joyful embracing of the Lord. |
| The swooping and soaring melody, very Eastern in its melismatic cut, is punctuated and embellished by the other three string instruments and by the piano. |
| In doing so, he proves himself to be one of the more expressive singers around, free of melismatic acrobatics and, fortunately, scatting. |
| Its melismatic horizontality and elegant ornaments probably make this music the quintessence of all these regional musics. |
| Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision. |
| Bach writes the subject in one huge, melismatic arc, and you're not supposed to break the line by gulping in air. |
