mellismatic

Adjective

melismatic (comparative more melismatic, superlative most melismatic)

1. Of, relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text.
   • Because slower metrical types are more melismatic and ornamented than primary-meter, their melodic-passages in both xipi and erhuang are more melismatic and complex than those of primary-meter.1991, Elizabeth Wichmann, Listening to Theatre: The Aural Dimension of Beijing Opera, University of Hawaii Press, page 92