Three major melodic ideas can be heard in this score.

The exposition is monothematic and the development continues to make use of that single melodic idea.

Not only does the dynamics change, but a new melodic idea is introduced.

The occurrence of this one-bar melodic idea is the only time in the piece that Barber uses it.

Several melodic ideas were recycled for use in later pieces.

It is a lot of effort on your part to find a melodic idea worth developing.

I begin with a melodic idea; melody for me is the key, and everything else follows.

It employs two new melodic ideas, expansive in themselves and even more luxuriantly developed.

And his new tuning gave him access to melodic ideas that were both simple and strange.

Often, his rhythms and melodic ideas sound as if they have been generated by synthesizers.