41.   The vocal lines daringly require the soprano to dip and soar and dart about.

42.   The young tenor unleashes taut vocal lines and layers of harmonies over the churning, jittery rhythms.

43.   Those vocal lines are cantilevered above riffs and drones that can shift into dance rhythms.

44.   True, translations can never be exact, since fitting words snugly to existing vocal lines takes precedence over rendering the text literally.

45.   Using low strings and winds, the orchestral settings have a bittersweet, Mahlerian gravity, which resonates hauntingly with the passionate urgency of the vocal line.

46.   While a vocal line may be symmetrical enough for a campfire sing-along, a different rhythmic slant or percussion accent sneaks in for a transcontinental second opinion.

47.   When she loses control, so does her vocal line, lapsing into tortured contours and revealing, in the murky harmonic undercurrents, the demons that drive her.

48.   Yet the arching vocal line was shaped with seasoned phrasing.

49.   Yet the astringent harmonies, the supple vocal line, the bitterly ironic lyrics and the restlessly syncopated middle section represent Sondheim in his most trenchantly personal voice.

50.   You can get away with yanking and tweaking the vocal lines for maximum lyrical effect in Bellini or Puccini, but not in Mozart.