The moments of sung melody, in the usual sense, come most often when the character is actually supposed to be singing, as in folk songs and liturgical chants.

Once he has been identified, however, a new melody is used to accompany his narrative, a bleak motif with barren octaves creating a rather ancient effect:

His sinuous melody is a sort of naive transcendence of all experience.

It is, after all, a non-romantic work ( even with the big, juicy melody of the second movement ) ; ;

He plays his sax principally for beauty of tone, rather than for scintillating flights of meaningless improvisations, and he has a quiet way of getting back and restating the melody after the improvising is over.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

The well-known " Ranz des Vaches " ( score ; audio ) is a traditional Swiss melody often heard on the alphorn.

Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging " involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety " ( ibid ).

* Cerdd Dant ( string music ) or Canu Penillion ( verse singing ) is the art of vocal improvisation over a given melody in Welsh musical tradition.

It is mainly homophonic — melody above chordal accompaniment ( but counterpoint is by no means forgotten, especially later in the period ).

His next important breakthrough was in the Opus 33 string quartets ( 1781 ), where the melodic and the harmonic roles segue among the instruments: it is often momentarily unclear what is melody and what is harmony.

In the celebrations marking the return of democracy in March 1990 at Santiago's Estadio Nacional de Chile, the anthem was played in its present melody, raised to F Major ( the Royal Musical Official Version of the anthem ) which is the original melody of the second anthem by Carnicer, but using the 1847 lyrics as text, save for the original chorus.

This tango melody is also " No Other Love Have I " in the musical " Me and Juliet " and a popular hit for Perry Como during the 1950s.

The melody in this movement is also termed the " Emperor's Hymn.

The words " God save Emperor Francis " were inspired by the British anthem, though not the melody, which is from the ( Croatian ) folk tradition.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

Fiddlers tend to play fast and make heavy use of staccato bowing and may from time to time " play the bass ," meaning a second fiddler may play a melody an octave below where a first fiddler is playing it.

In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".

On the other hand, during rehearsals, workmen in the theater stopped what they were doing during Va, pensiero and applauded at the conclusion of this haunting melody while the growth of the " identification of Verdi's music with Italian nationalist politics " is judged to have begun in the summer 1846 in relation to a chorus from Ernani in which the name of one of its characters, " Carlo ", was changed to " Pio ", a reference to Pope Pius IX's grant of an amnesty to political prisoners.

The second section is dominated by improvisation, more complex rhythms, and hard-driving mambo, or the part of the song where melody instruments ( sax and accordion ) unite to play catchy, syncopated riffs or jaleos which help motivate and stimulate dancers.

" Let the Rain Pour Down " is set to the melody of " Midnight Special ," a traditional blues song popularized by Lead Belly.

Piedmont blues ( also known as East Coast blues ) refers primarily to a guitar style, the Piedmont fingerstyle, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others.

Bob Dylan used the melody in his song " Blind Willie McTell " ( released on Bootleg Series, Volumes 1 – 3 ), named for blues singer Blind Willie McTell ( who had recorded a version under the title " Dying Crapshooter's Blues "); the song makes reference to the St. James Hotel in Minneapolis.

" Of course I am maybe one of the few musicians who like simple recurring melody patterns and in all my playing I try to keep to keep a basic melody line in my mind and attempt to develop meaningful inversions and variations ... I like the basic blues ...

The Piedmont blues is a type of blues music characterized by a unique fingerpicking method on the guitar in which a regular, alternating-thumb bass pattern supports a melody using treble strings.

For example, the twelve bar blues is a specific verse form, while common meter is found in many hymns and ballads and, again, the Elizabethan galliard, like many dances, requires a certain rhythm, pace and length of melody to fit its repeating pattern of steps.

Early African American blues dances were very simple in their core movement and allowed for a wide variety of musical interpretation, embodying a black aesthetic approach to rhythm, movement and melody which permeated black music.

During the solo section one or more instruments play a melodic line which may be the melody used by the singer, or, in blues or jazz influenced pop, the solo may be improvised based on the chord progression.

Nine eclectic tracks were taken from these sessions, including covers of " Ol ' Man River " by Jerome Kern, the Tudor melody " Greensleeves ," Bonnie Dobson's " Morning Dew ", acknowledgment of two giants of Chicago blues in songs by Willie Dixon ; Muddy Waters ' " You Shook Me " and Howlin ' Wolf's " I Ain't Superstitious ".

) Two " talking blues " using the melody to the old folk song " John Hardy " jabbed sarcastic at Vietnam and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Thus, even though a player could play any melody in any key ( within a three octave range ) on a C diatonic harmonica, most harmonica players ( especially those who focus on blues and / or diatonic harmonicas ) prefer to match the possibilities of glissandos, register and dynamics of a given melody to a harmonica.

returns to the opening legato melody, played by flute against the tune from the second section played by cello gradually leading to a third tune, a blues, played by the oboe.

The song was distinct from other contemporary protest-songs in that it utilized the sound of Muscle Shoals Alabama, blues licks made popular by both Eric Clapton and Duane Allman Honky Tonk melody, though this was in keeping with Lynyrd Skynyrd's country-rock image.

As with most traditional blues songs, there is great variation in the melody and lyrical content as performed by different artists.

It was one of several answer songs to " Work With Me Annie " and has the same 12-bar blues melody.

Her version contained some new lyrics, as well as a small modification of the melody.

Blake's lyrics have also been set to music by other composers without reference to Parry's melody.

After he's written the melody, then I write the lyrics.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

They have discovered melody, guitar solos and lyrics that are more than shouted political slogans.

The lyric style is the concert performance, and this style emphasizes the sweetness of the melody and the poetry of the lyrics.

Most performances are in concert, so they emphasize the beauty of the melody and lyrics.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

The melody is used, with rewritten English lyrics, as the alma mater of Northwestern College ( Iowa ) in Orange City, Iowa, USA.

According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide, the award is given to the songwriter ( s ) of a song that " must contain melody and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year.

Valkhoff wrote lyrics on the same melody for several other teams as well.

The melody line is often dependent on the writer's chosen lyrics and can vary in detail from verse to verse.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

The anthem's evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music ( see below: Musical quotations ).

Not knowing the lyrics to the song, he invented a gibberish melody to fill time, expecting the cut to be thrown out in the end, but that take of the song was the one released.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

Rodgers also wrote a melody for which Hart wrote three consecutive lyrics which either were cut, not recorded or not a hit.

In 1967, The Seekers recorded " Emerald City ", with lyrics about a visit there, set to the melody of Beethoven's " Ode to Joy ".

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

The song " The Yankee Doodle Boy " ( a. k. a. " Yankee Doodle Dandy ") was Cohan's trademark piece, a patriotic pastiche drawing from the lyrics and melody of the old Revolutionary War number, " Yankee Doodle ".