How To Use Melody In A Sentence

Melancholic melody, harmony, subtle dissonance, throat vibrato and asymmetric rhythms make up their choral, ‘a cappella’ style.
After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
‘The composer's operetta appeals to a less discriminating taste for melody, harmony and rhythm,’ he said.
A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes. Times, Sunday Times
Text and music do not necessarily coincide in their classification: a ferial text may have a seasonal melody; equally a seasonal, proper or common text may use a ferial melody (eg a short respond or versicle and response).

He juggles multiple systems of rhythm, melody, structure and timbre.
Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill. The Firing Line
And whan the philosophres han don and perfourmed here commandementes, thanne the mynstralle begynnen to don here mynstralcye, everyche in hire instrumentes, eche aftre other, with alle the melodye that thei can devyse. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
I also loved the sophistication and harmony of jazz, the melody and, of course, the great solos that jazz cats played.
Instead of seeking melody, listeners grew satisfied with crump-crump rhythm.
The bright-hammered melody of the flat-crank 4.5-liter V8, the fiery spall of the overrun note, the tach-rapping flexibility of the 9,000-rpm engine as you gear-bang the seven-speed dual clutch tranny—all of that is at a slight remove in the fixed-roof car. Ferrari 458 Italia Loses Its Top, Gains Hugely
And then just when the melody rose to a peak, her voice had cracked, gone slightly off key. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
I heard the following melody in Gaspe Country, the eastermost part of Quebec. Folk Songs of French Canada
A cluster of blossoms, when the wind stirs them, shake out a kind of aeolian melody, and it was that which so entranced Ala a few moments ago. A Columbus of Space
But what makes the melody haunting is its unusual structure. Times, Sunday Times
When you listen to Irish or Scottish tunes, keep your pick in hand and 'strum' (I like to use the outer seam of my pants on my thigh) along with the melody. Mandolin Cafe News
In the first nocturn, the Church sings lessons from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, with a special melody famous for its solemnity and beauty, and entirely appropriate to the text. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
The family, is Mulan for the father of story; affection, is this story; affection, is A Bing the moon reflected in the melody.
The band prefers to keep things very understated, but they never skimp on melody or song structure, which, though simple, doesn't fail to captivate.
Like the Poco Allegretto of the composer's third symphony, the wistful melody of this movement gives the score poignancy that stamps it as one of the great creations of the romantic era.
Today, pop music lovers everywhere understand the title lyrics and know the song’s catchy melody by heart. The English Is Coming!
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
Trickling streams nearby added to the tranquility of this hidden paradise, joining in sweet melody with the bird's songs.
The melody was at times slow and lilting, and other times fast-paced and merry.
Her gift for melody, her insistence on shaping almost every piece as a song, gives her work a stamp of individuality.
In most well-written homophony, the parts that are not melody may still have a lot of melodic interest. Archive 2009-05-01
Singin' in the Rain: "Make 'Em Laugh" (Donald O'Connor, many pratfalls, also that whole backflipping-off-the-walls thing), "Moses Supposes" (O'Connor and Kelly harass a specialist in elocution), part of the "Broadway Melody" (not really my favorite ballet sequence, but I'll sometimes watch Kelly's pas de deux with Cyd Charisse) Music
Harmonization thus becomes not a means in itself, bur another aspect of the ‘perpetual variation’ process of an essentially monophonic melody.
It is to be found in the basso ostinato, a repeated bass line over which a keyboard player or lutenist improvises chords and a singer or player evolves a melody.
The occasion was the opening-night dinner of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women Summit, a three-day estrogen-flavored wonkfest: Geena Davis lecturing the female execs and entrepreneurs on gender in media, Melody Barnes and Michelle Rhee holding forth on education, Trudie Styler teaching 6 a.m. yoga. Nora Ephron tries to draw out Nancy Pelosi at Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Summit"
The shamisen is usually played with a single string, or by plucking an open string for a droning effect while the melody's picked our on one of the other strings, so hearing the fuller chords and harmony notes from these two instruments was a cool experience. Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
It is a charming picture, and one would like to know more about that "chaunt," that "wild melody. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
The sweet melody of the practicing orchestra wafted over us.
The trip down memory lane took an odd couple or two in its melody, who were seen tapping their fingers at the rhythm, occasionally smiling at each other in remembrance of those good ole days.
The title track is even an evocative melody reminiscent of early Portishead.
I get lost among the cornucopias of chotkies and tat, and am somehow spilled back out to the main Jemaa El F'na Square, where one charmeurs de serpent pulls me under his black umbrella and wags his head at his Egyptian Cobra actually, Naja haje legionis, a sub-species found in southern Morocco as his associate blows his bagpipe-like melody in his ghaita. Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh?
Widowed, and with a little child, he felt violent pangs of transient remorse, and hymned his dead wife in vintage Nineties poet's minor melody.
The sweeping rise and fall of the melody settled softly into her mind.
Every song here is tuneful, with a carefully crafted melody and production style.
The melody flows or soars like the song of a bird, because it is the free expression, not of musical fantasy, as such (the unconscious play of tonal fancy), but the flow of _melody_, _song_, the soaring of spirit in some one particular direction, floating upon buoyant pinions, and in directions well conceived and sure. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
She knew that my glance was upon her; for herself, she looked at the broad lilies that grew at her feet, and listened to the melody that seemed to bubble from a thousand throats with interfluent sound upon the night. Dark Ways
It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times
Partly this is due to the heavy reliance on the second tone plainchant melody, which can be clearly heard in the first polyphonic verse at ‘in Deo salutary meo’ (‘in God my saviour’) and a soprano and alto duet at ‘Esurientes implevit bonis’ (‘He hath filled the hungry with good things’). Archive 2009-06-01
She'd put us all in a semi-circle, and begin with a melody three or four bars long. Times, Sunday Times
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
The musical evening began with the alap of Bhimpalasi Raga, where the artistes created a soothing melody with sitar and tanpura. News
Mr. GOLIJOV: I wanted to surround that beautiful melody with what I call the seething anger of the Arab streets, so to speak. Composer Golijov, Soprano Upshaw Unite for 'Ayre'
develop the melody and change the key
A wonderful song with a beautiful melody and dreamlike chord changes. Times, Sunday Times
She was always good at repetition, at combining melody and harmony and rolling them over into country drone, but Rawlings is replaced here on half the tracks by a fiddle.
You are directing and providing the rhythm and the melody. The Sun
Only one, ‘I Love to Tell the Story,’ has the melody in octaves in the bass.
Schoenberg sought what he called ‘speech melody’ - something between declamation and song - and he devised a notation that indicated the rise and fall of the voice, as well as its rhythm.
When music is recognizable, as in a melody with a traditional harmonic accompaniment, we experience reassurance.
His pieces are too monotonous in rhythm and weak in melody to be really interesting, and his experiments in tonality are indecisive.
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
Accompanying Melody on this journey is a deeply rewarding experience. Out of My Mind: Summary and book reviews of Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper.
He had this electronic beep which I wrote lyrics and melody over. The Sun
I suspect that many more organ chorales were accompaniments for hymn-singing than we now appreciate: hymn books with melody were rare, and somehow the organist had to play and harmonise the tune.
It was a nearly perfect set that ended with "Johnny Come Lately," which began with the rousing melody rearranged into a contrapuntal, pointillistic pattern with bass support from Peter Washington, and centering around a percussion solo by Dana Hall. Classic Sounds
But as air, melody, is what strikes me most of all in music and design in painting, so design, pattern, or what I am in the habit of calling inscape is what I above all aim at in poetry. Editor’s Preface to Notes
This melody immortalized its composer
All I can manage to say is that Melody defended me like a saint, and Pete acted… very… unbefitting of a gentleman.
The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
It's inoffensive and unchallenging guitars alongside a basic melody. The Sun
Melody grabs it in midair, puts it on a plate, spreads a little deviled ham on, and then flips the egg onto it.
They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody. The Qawwals and Qawwali « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
The rhythmic imprecision of the triplet in the melody of the synthesizer only adds an extra element of uncertainty to the passage.
A metronomical performance is certainly tiresome and nonsensical; time and rhythm must be adapted to and identified with the melody, the harmony, the accent and the poetry ... Letters
His short cape blew along with the night wind, dancing to its melody as it sang through the desert.
The Skyline Melody apartments at Vazhuthacaud seem to have taken the first tentative step to recognise the need for collective action by bringing out a directory-cum-souvenir.
That's part of the charm of the record, this very primitiveness of instrumentation and melody - as though we are looking in on something that isn't quite ready to be shown to the public yet, or was never even intended for it.
The success of a popular composer depends on his melody.
The typical MIDI file is a multi-track song file that has separate parts for melody, bass, accompaniment, percussion and so forth.
But the Buff Rock, a melody in color, shows that consonance, that consentaneousness, of flesh to feather that makes the plucked fowl to the feathered fowl what high noon is to the faint and far-off dawn -- a glow of golden legs and golden neck, mellow, melting as butter, and all the more so with every unpicked pinfeather. The Hills of Hingham
It's written in a kind of pastiche nineteenth-century style, complete with faux-Spanish exotic syncopations, melody and harmony (falling tetrachords, augmented seconds).
Always glowing whenever she hits a stage or screen, the blond, round-cheeked Ebersole has an infallible instinct for jollying a melody that jibes seamlessly with what Weinstein is doing as he rapidly saws away and as Firth and Hubbard fill their breaks with matching virtuosity. David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph
He still did not look at Melody until she reached out and took him hand in hers. 1 __ a l l - L _ L-- L A different flesh
The album is mainly middle-of-the-road reggae, heavy on drum and bass, and chock-full of melody lines that grab you right away and sound better with each listen.
Katherine Bodenbender, another member of the ensemble, says that convincing the fingers of the right hand to play that "oompah" while the right thumb is plucking out the melody takes a little practice. NPR Topics: News
The lead single 'Modern Driveway' has a dreamy motorik energy and an ultra-emotive melody.
A song, by its very definition, implies a single individual giving voice to either emotion or narrative by means of melody.
The combination of melodies in polyphony, one of the great artistic achievements of medieval Europe, has produced the need for a more specialized explanation of melody in Western music.
The smoky melody to the ensuing Ruins makes Jack Wyllie's sax more like a stringed instrument crossed with a trumpet, its quivering vibrato spooky but turning more guttural and free-jazzy as the backbeat pushes on. Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
He also has an uncommon gift for melody and thoughtful lyrics.
In the finest folk tradition, the melody lines are long and abundantly worded.
The great vocal melody is still there, and the arrangement on the album fits the theme of the song.
For them, the call of each of these birds is distinct, with its own melody, structure, pitch, base and treble.
In some ways the skylark is the sweetest singer we have; only certain of the thrushes rival it, but though the songs of the latter have perhaps even more melody, they are far from being as uninterrupted and well sustained, being rather a succession of broken bursts of music. VI. A Trip on the Prairie
These charming verses of the ninth century were probably sung to music having little of the movement which we now associate with the term melody, but which was more of a chant-like character. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
Imagine the muffled sound of a banjo being clunked, insistently and arhythmical, through the paper-thin walls of a tract home, of a song being played so slowly that any melody was indecipherable.
The magic of melody and voice can work wonders with a poem, which would otherwise have been insipid to the ordinary reader.
The lyrics are intelligent and engaging, while the music has more melody than the typical metal record.
The song rambles on without a single redeeming characteristic or the slightest hint of a melody.
The name "organum" was dropped and the new system became known as tenor and descant, the tenor being the principal or foundation melody, and the descant or descants (for there could be as many as there were parts or voices to the music) taking the place of the organum. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
In "Love Song", he puts a Harry Chapinesque melody with lyrics describing a girl, who despite having a perfectly charmed upbringing is still a bitch. Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: T-Post, Client 9 and More
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Parachute packs a foot-tapping pop melody into its fidgety frame, coming across something like a grittier, grizzlier BBC - Ouch
However, S.bramanyam's 1938 hit S.va S.danam, which introduced the legend M.S. S.bbulakshmi, had her singing this song, making it an immortal melody. The Hindu - Front Page
Often, I come home and figure the chords out later, and then with some other ones, I'll be sitting down messing with the guitar or the harmonium or something and start a melody. Mike Ragogna: Songs From The South and How To Make Gravy: Conversations With Paul Kelly Plus Lisa Hannigan
I like the melody of the acoustic guitar here, but I'm not crazy about the fact that it's acoustic guitar or that it's put with those other instruments.
Without a clear melody, color becomes the paramount musical element.
The haunting and unique melody is called fado, the pride of Portuguese music, first developed in the mid-19th century. Coimbra's Fado Haunts
After hundreds of pages grappling with such subjects as statistical regression analysis of melody and scientific studies of toddlers 'capacity for recognizing harmony, his plea is a bold and welcome affirmation of the mystery that music still poses for us. Hear It, Feel It
Calling it “Symphony for Eleanor,” the nearly ten-minute work bears little resemblance to the original other than springing from the structure of the original melody and using the original lyrics. Midweek Music Moment: Vehicle, The Ides of March « A Progressive on the Prairie
Many of these songs are meant to be played at dances or parties, where you could reasonably expect people to be in the middle of a contradance; like today's trance and electronic musics, most fiddle tunes have few or no lyrics, and a catchy melody that self perpetuates. Phawker
He believes that there's currently a move in British music towards better melody and lyrics.
Their lyrics are intelligent and literate, their music is full of melody, while their performance is always passionate - thanks to their powerful vocals.
The lead instrument, the prima, the smallest of the group of tamburitzas carries the melody.
There is little dramatic impulse, but, especially when sung in German, the solo music is reminiscent of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in its simple direct melody and clear diatonic harmony.
Without pause, the finale begins with strings slashing through the drumming, followed by woodwind trills and a skipping melody.
All of the members of the Melody crouched, throwing their hands over their heads to fling away the flying debris.
Busy textures are rich with incident and hidden melody, though final cadences are perhaps abrupt. Times, Sunday Times
What all of these songs have in common is the way that rhythm interacts interestingly with melody to produce a hypnotic effect.
The melody rang brightly from the upper gallery.
It was then that I heard an eerie melody upon the air, from a lute, or other stringed instrument.
In one instance he made a draft on an authentic mastersinger melody. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
He has harmony without melody; he invents and executes marvellous variations upon verse; he has footed the tight-rope of the galliambic measure and the swaying planks of various trochaic experiments; but his resolve to astonish is stronger than his desire to charm, and he lets technical skill carry him into such excesses of ugliness in verse as technical skill carried Liszt, and sometimes Berlioz, in music. Figures of Several Centuries
He played an old Irish melody.
Melodic rubato occurs where ‘tempo rubato frees a melody from strict note values, either by agogic accents or by accelerando and rallentando… so that the melody is momentarily out of step with the accompaniment ’.
Vibraphone and bass sketch the hymnal melody, joined by lush violin figures and soft digital crackle.
Both the melody and harmony share the same pentatonic scalar basis, and the intervals of perfect fourths and major seconds derived from the pentatonic scale are frequently used both linearly and vertically in all eight variations.
An aura of mystery weaves a pattern blended with the unheard of melody of fluting.
It is only two lines long, but its melody, in spooky mode IV, is filled with undulations which remind one of the journey of the Magi. "We have seen his star in the east"
Thus we may compare to orators those composers who ordinarily take the cantus firmus or subject from others and, weaving over it an artful counter - point, draw various melodic lines from it, which often have something dry or labored, in that they lack a certain grace and naturalness, which is the true spice of melody. MUSICAL GENIUS
She can write an expansive melody that's well structured but isn't straitjacketed by chorus and verse.
The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted.
It is raw, natural, with a distinct style, yet the underlying melody comes out strong and clear.
And then just when the melody rose to a peak, her voice had cracked, gone slightly off key. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
How good is your recognition of harmony and melody? The Secrets of Musical Confidence
She whistled a melody
Their music had edge, melody, and incredible vocals - all rare in most of the bands that night.
With a rich, honey-thick voice, an ear for the catchiest turn of vocal and lyrical phrase, and a harmonious way with a melody, Reid Jamieson turns eight homemade acoustic demos into a thing of beauty.
modulate the melody
However, on ‘Vlu’ an almost dainty melody twitters while that basso profondo voice adds a resonance that pours out of the speakers like thick treacle.
The effect is a lilting, mesmeric tidal flow of rhythm and melody - you might find yourself slipping into a trance, with or without the aid of controlled substances.
(Did shake my head at "Falling Slowly" though - how did a droning, dirgelike song with almost melody win again?) Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
Not that hearing her voice isn't always a melody for me, but there was a far more pronounced "lilt" in her greeting. Stephanie Gertler: Hearts And Souls: A Family Deals With Grief
His senses responded only to the sonorous music of the woods; a steadfast wind ringing metallic melody from the pine-tops contented him as the sound of the sea does the sailor; and dear as the odors of the ocean to the mariner were the resinous scents of the forest to him. A Mountain Woman
I have an idea of the flavour now - the root note of the melody, gently picked electric guitar, a line or two of vocals.
Briefly, this symbol signifies a harmonic connection between two notes in a melody.
But when he sings that doomy line, his voice and the melody of the song's hook soars and you find yourself humming or singing the line yourself.
They realize the inherent reliability of hooks and melody and of strong verses and even stronger choruses.
Normally a mouth organ or a piano accordion accompanies the music and plays the melody.
Pianist One favored the use of delaying the onset of the melody note for beginnings of phrases and melodic peaks.
Even though it was mainly scales or the repetitious construction of a melody Chuck might be working out, there was always something soothing about his silvery sylvan songs drifting from our home.
Andrew can pick out a lovely melody but his harmonies often seem out (perhaps deliberately so) and he's better with melodies than he is with rhythms, for the moment.
There are not too many prog-technicism but the writing is very careful to the final melody of the track. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
The peculiar melody and profuse imagination which the pastoral disclosed at once placed its author in the forefront of living poets, but a far greater work was already in hand; and from some words of Gabriel Harvey's we see Spenser bent on rivalling Ariosto, and even hoping "to overgo" the "Orlando Furioso" in his "Elvish Queen. History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
The likembe (similar to the mbira or kalimba) that gives the band its signature resonating, nuanced, jingling melody is hand crafted from items salvaged from a junkyard. Dustin Reid: Konono No 1's DIY Spirit Fills Prospect Park And Le Poisson Rouge (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)
The beauty of this aspect to Aphex is that he always remembers to shove a melody in there, even if it's hidden beneath layers of tinfoil hammered percussion and walls of groaning sequencers.
Whenever AFG comes home and hints that we need to put on some kind of hootenanny -- oh, I'm sorry, we need to put on some kind of evening soiree-- my first thought is "What would Melody do? What Would Melody Do? - SpouseBUZZ
Pianist Damon Denton scampers through Shostakovich's figurations with a keen ear for melody and texture.
There are two distinct textures for the polyphonic works: a “discant” style, in which the two voice parts generally move together (as in the conductus and the Benedicamus tropes), and an “organal” style in which the upper voice part sings a rhapsodic melody against the long-held notes of a lower tenor voice based on a liturgical chant (as in adiutor an the tropped Kyrie: Cunctipotens). Archive 2009-04-01
We may "pshaw" and "pooh" at Harry Gill and the Idiot Boy; but the deep and tremulous tenderness of sentiment, the strong-winged flight of fancy, the excelling and unvarying purity, which pervade all the writings of Wordsworth, and the exquisite melody of his lyrical poems, must ever continue to attract and purify the mind. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
This topic is relevant because music is more than just voice, rhythm, beat, melody but lyrics.
Voicing in many pieces is made more advanced by placing the melody in the same hand as many moving sixteenth notes or triplets.
The drums lightly tap, the second guitar plays the main melody, and the bass doubles the second guitar.
Glass has stripped music down to a few bare parameters: repetition, simple harmony and little melody.
Settings are for three or four voices, mainly syllabic and homophonic, with the melody in the top voice.
The tune of "Dort," by Lowell Mason, has long been the popular melody for this hymn. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
So it was all melody and rhythm. Times, Sunday Times
Lippa's music, though idiomatic, is not rich in melody, depending largely on rhythm and harmony.
The Prelude no.15 itself begins as an idyllic stroll full of anticipation and becomes more emphatic as the bass line takes over the melody and the treble assumes the role of harmony.
The brief spaces in the entrancing melody offer glimpses of a lurking pressure.
Then they made it out against the susurrus of moving air, a plaintive whistle, a strain of melody. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
It's a rather chirpy little guitar-pop song with a melody that is strangely reminiscent of the Postman Pat theme tune.
In addition, David says melody and rhythm are most important to him in composing music.
Voices shouted below, accompanied by the mournful wail of a fiddle; and then, in countermelody, the lilt of a penny whistle. Masked
‘Maybe human melody has extended but it still retains its primal shape and significance’ Professor Pont said.
Movement III unfolds as a graceful pastorale in 6/8 time, presenting the melody twice in its entirety, adding gravity through use of an ostinato-like pedal line.
i luv gay guyz! they're soooo sweet! got music from mr. k for auditions for colleges. shud be awesome eh! i'm excited. i need help tho choosin the song. itz tough! and thatz bout it .... j'adore josh groban beautiful | | melody Zingerbabai Diary Entry
They are adept at creating an exquisite line in melody that's deep in emotion and rich in vibrancy.
Snippets of waltz occasionally float through, the Mozart connection abruptly contrasted by ostinatos, lilting chords, and variants of the Mozartian melody in Russian sounding woodwind lines.
Park's "Chronos" features an ostinato bass line that allows Redman to explore vestiges of Middle Eastern music on the melody. Ralph A. Miriello: Review of the 2011 Jazz Festival at Beautiful Caramoor, Katonah, NY
That said, you may not be able to remember a single melody to any one of these songs after a week, but maybe that's not the point.
The air was an ancient Gaelic melody, and the words, which were supposed to be very old, were in the same language; but we subjoin a translation of them, by Secundus Macpherson, Esq. of Glenforgen, which, although submitted to the fetters of English rhythm, we trust will be found nearly as genuine as the version of Ossian by his celebrated namesake. A Legend of Montrose
Anna had realized that for most people on Erde, even players, the term harmony had a far more general meaning in Liedwahr " something akin to "not creating dissonance" rather than the earthly technical musical meaning of parallel chords or supporting lines of music distinct from the melody line. The Spellsong War
You'd almost describe the addition of the danceable element and becalmed melody-heavy tracks near the end as their polishing themselves up were it not for that such elements are rent asunder by the sheer bloody minded power of the fuzztone assault of Windett's guitar against the rhythm section's churning Kraut-disco inventiveness. The Line Of Best Fit
Etymology: A flute is called a 'bansuri', where bans means bamboo, and sur means melody. Shadow Warrior
There's an odd melody that I remember not liking from when I saw the film, and it doesn't really work that well, although it's not too bad when it's mixed with dinosaur roars.
Another big plus is the brilliant new opening music - an orchestral take on the much-loved classic melody. The Sun
The music played in those distant times did not reflect a desire to create melody, far from it.
It kame softly over deh hill and surrownding dem wif its melody. Dis my impreshun of u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Apparently, Mandarin speakers also use the right temporal lobe which is used to process melody in music and speech.
Its effect is the same as that of soul-stirring, soul-elevating scriptural incantation or a cascade of melody.
Their music had edge, melody, and incredible vocals - all rare in most of the bands that night.
The Last To Know is the most exuberant track, helped by a vibrant horn section and a catchy melody.
Same with Squeeze, for that matter; they too sailed from the port of Melody and wandered the Sargasso bogs for years, turning out hours of mid-tempo yawners.
Busy textures are rich with incident and hidden melody, though final cadences are perhaps abrupt. Times, Sunday Times
Above the tide of melody, the voice of the evangelist rose in a scream, appalling in its agony -- "Oh, men and women, why _will_ you die, _why_ will you _die_? Fran
A favourite move is to team a delicate melody with a rippling bass ostinato that gradually swells in intensity. Times, Sunday Times
Every morning and evening songbirds gave us a glorious symphonic performance rich in harmony, melody and a few jazzy solos.
The piece requires the player to shift the focus of the melody line from the treble to the bass.
Mr. Swinburne to those of Mr. Patmore, in which stateliness of contemplation and a peculiar austerity of tenderness find their expression in odes of iambic cadence, the melody of which depends, not in their headlong torrent of sound, but in the cunning variation of catalectic pause. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
The V7 and IV chords in standard inversions are quickly introduced, and the remainder of the book generally uses the hands together with chords accompanying a single-line melody.
I made up my own lyrics and a melody on the spot. Times, Sunday Times
Most Arabic music is pure melody and rhythm, unencumbered by harmony; voices implore and exult, while instruments share the inflections of song.
Whereas popular music relies almost entirely on melody, classical music has development and argument.

How To Use Melody In A Sentence

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