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And through it all is Mapfumo's mellifluent, authoritative and deeply moving vocals, complemented by counterpoints from the three-piece female chorus.
Angry as hell: a demand for change
Before editing this special section, I could not have imagined that 50 writers could praise a single person in the mellifluent diversity with which the 50 scholars and students who wrote for this section commemorate Nellie Yvonne McKay.
Nellie McKay--a memorial
As a result, a sense of mellifluent monotony is achieved and paired with an unmistakable improvisatory quality that characterizes most Greek folk music.
44 Children's Pieces on Greek Melodies by Yannis Constantinidis: a Masterpiece of Mikrokosmic proportions
The mellifluent medic is using her finely-tuned vocal talents to deliver a dose of musical therapy to patients and staff at Hexham General Hospital in Northumberland.
Musical medic has the tuneful tonic
The repetition of the mellifluent sounds at the end of these long, rolling lines--which at once seem to reject boundaries, even as they are end-stopped before each new stanza--becomes a soul-changing incantation.
Natasha Trethewey, Domestic Work and Bellocq's Ophelia

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