‘They've got such a strong grasp of melody, rhythm and harmony and every single song on this latest album withstands repeated plays.’.‘Glass has stripped music down to a few bare parameters: repetition, simple harmony and little melody.’.‘In terms of form, melody, and harmony, these works define the word ‘traditional.’’.‘Stock is stronger with structure, rhythm, harmony and tonal effect than he is with melody.’.‘Copland, of course, owed a lot to the Russian Stravinsky, but not his sense of melody, embedded in the American vernacular.’.‘Shadows Collide with People marks the point at which Frusciante brings his gift for melody and proper songs to his own work.’.

‘Also included is the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, a master of melody and of his country's folklore.’.‘A song like ‘Oranges On Appletrees’ is a glaring advertisement for their gift of melody.’.‘Not only has he inherited his father's gift for effortless melody, but his tenor is also imbued with Caetano's sturdy character.’.‘He's always had a gift for melody and texture, obviously, but how these components work against his drums is what I'm always listening for.’.

‘Having said that, there is some evocative background to most of the mixes and they do show the plain gift for melody that Reich has.’.‘He also has an uncommon gift for melody and thoughtful lyrics.’.‘In addition, David says melody and rhythm are most important to him in composing music.’.‘The Italians Rossini and Donizetti had a real gift for melody, a natural theatrical instinct and, more often than not, great wit.’.‘His supreme gift for melody is readily apparent in his keyboard works, just on a smaller scale than found in his orchestral and vocal works.’.‘He has a fine gift for melody, and it would be fair to say that melodic considerations drive the piece.’.‘Consistently elevating each of these fourteen tracks above the clones are the pair's ear for melody and sense of musical humor.’.‘The common threads are Jóhannsson's airy use of space and the fundamental simplicity with which he approaches melody and arrangement.’.‘They do display a keen sense of melody and song arrangement, but being better than all the other emo bands still isn't saying much.’.‘That same, simple melody played by a single trumpet might be beautiful, but the message conveyed and resulting impact on the audience is not the same.’.‘This is a language I can understand, music with a melody I can whistle.’.‘Mendelssohn's melody forms a self-contained, cadentially closed unit, a little garden of its own.’.‘The majority of Obrecht's masses are constructed round either plainchant melodies or secular songs.’.‘Still, these are threads rather than a dialogue until the piano plays an infectious melody around which the music weaves a joyous romp.’.‘It was just pure joy escapist music, sweet melodies played very sweetly by a small orchestra.’.‘The album's arrangements are uniformly awful, and its melodies are elevator music bland.’.‘Her voice sounded like pure music, a melody he'd forever be joyful to hear composed.’.‘As soon as his fingers hit the notes in the song, the melody seemed quite familiar.’.‘Her fingers danced skillfully on the taut strings, creating an intricate melody.’.

‘Rain beat against her window, and she could hear faint musical melodies drifting through the air to her from the ballroom.’.

‘Their repertoire included folk and musical hall melodies about daily life ending with a fun tongue twister as a finale.’.

‘Dedicated to Balakirev, this piece has a lyrical melody with light fingerwork in the right hand.’.

‘The first two songs use folk melodies which Durey heard a young shepherd sing during his stay.’.

‘According to the liner notes, only three of the melodies come directly from Holst.’.

‘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.’.

‘Even if the basic chords are unchanged, the melody almost inevitably adds passing notes which effectively alter the chords.’.

‘It's a rather chirpy little guitar-pop song with a melody that is strangely reminiscent of the Postman Pat theme tune.’.

‘It means he can hum a popular melody in the tune of other songs.’.

‘Singers will get the chance to sing in harmony, in single line melodies, in rounds and to experiment with varied vocal textures.’.

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