And even hearing it in a concert hall surrounded by hundreds of people the words and the melody would make me a little colder and I would reach out for my husband's hand.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

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.

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

His last group of operas, composed for Rome, exhibit a deeper poetic feeling, a broad and dignified style of melody, a strong dramatic sense, especially in accompanied recitatives, a device which he himself had been the first to use as early as 1686 ( Olimpia vendicata ) and a much more modern style of orchestration, the horns appearing for the first time, and being treated with striking effect.

Arrangements of popular music for small a cappella ensembles typically include one voice singing the lead melody, one singing a rhythmic bass line, and the remaining voices contributing chordal or polyphonic accompaniment.

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 ).

In 1992, he wrote the introduction melody for the European football championship, which was organised by Sweden that year.

This taste for structural clarity worked its way into the world of music, moving away from the layered polyphony of the Baroque period, towards a style where a melody over a subordinate harmony — a combination called homophony — was preferred.

This pressed the Classical style inwards: towards seeking greater ensemble and technical challenge — for example, scattering the melody across woodwinds, or using thirds to highlight the melody taken by them.

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.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

The French singer Claude Nougaro used its melody for his tribute to Louis Armstrong in French, under the name Armstrong.

Often whimsical, these pieces display Rossini's natural ease of composition and gift for melody, showing obvious influences of Beethoven and Chopin, with many flashes of the composer's long buried desire for serious, academic composition.

The adjudicator of the competition, " Owain Alaw " ( John Owen, 1821-1883 ) asked for permission to include Glan Rhondda in his publication, Gems of Welsh melody ( 1860 – 64 ).

47 noted for its delicate, intricate melody and abrupt dynamic changes.

With the help of Ziggy Elman, also in the band, he transformed a traditional Jewish melody into a popular song, `` And The Angels Sing ''.

Their begging song might easily be a folk melody:

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 ; ;

In 1840 Hoffmann wrote a song about the Zollverein, also to Haydn's melody, in which he praised the free trade of German goods which brought Germans and Germany closer.

The song melded electro hip-hop beats influenced by Yellow Magic Orchestra with the melody from Kraftwerk's " Trans-Europe Express.

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.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

Another version of the story was that the group had gotten inspiration for writing the song after hearing The Orioles ' rock ' n ' roll version of Big Joe Williams ' hit, " Baby Please Don't Go ", taking its melody from the song.

In this style, the guitarist aims to render an entire song — harmony, melody and bass — in something like the way a classical guitarist or pianist can.

According to the skill and taste of the player, the melody, harmony or both may be an improvisation on the song.

* Lyrics, the composition in verse which is sung to a melody to constitute a song

I wanted to write short phrases, so I wrote a song full of questions " and the song's melody is within a small music range:

The song starts off with a heavy crescendo of woodwinds and low strings playing the famous Tomb Raider melody, and then breaks off into an almost playful arc, featuring parts of the harp composition from the Tomb Raider theme.

As for the composition date of Mozart's Variations, for a time the variations were thought to have been composed in 1778, while Mozart stayed in Paris from April to September in that year, the assumption being that the melody of a French song could only have been picked up by Mozart while residing in France.

The melody of the Wilhelmus originates from a French catholic soldiers ' song titled " Autre chanson de la ville de Chartres assiégée par le prince de Condé " ( English: " Another song about the city of Chartres under siege by the Prince de Condé ").

The second major variation is the song " Wenn alle untreu werden " ( German: " If everyone becomes unfaithful ") better known as " Das Treuelied ", which was written by the poet Max von Schenkendorf ( 1783 – 1817 ) and used exactly the same melody as the Wilhelmus.

Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music and anthems, and the melody of a Chinese song named " Mò Li Hūa ( 茉莉花 )", or " Jasmine ", is included as a motif for the princess.

It was to Macpherson's melody that he fitted the words of his song.

In 2008, the rock band Weezer released its so-called Red Album which includes a song entitled " The Greatest Man That Ever Lived " with the subtitle "( Variations on a Shaker Hymn )" as it uses the melody of a Shaker song.

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.

Jose Maria also commented that he often locked himself in a room with a dictionary and books to write his songs, while Nacho has said that to compose he started off with a rhythm machine, then added the melody, and the lyrics came in last.

" The soul, the passion, just the out and out audacity of the way her rhythmic and melody changes came was like nothing I ’ ve heard before .”

According to family legend, his son James James, was walking one day in January 1856 on the banks of the river when the melody for Hen Wlad fy Nhadau came to him.

The melody is still the same, with an industrial kind of groove to the beginning and then the chorus comes in and it's full on crazy, with the screaming vocals .” The idea for recording a cover version of the song came during a soundcheck by then-Danzig guitarist John Christ.

In fact, because of the late date of most Kyries, it is not always clear whether a particular Kyrie melody or the apparently troped text came first ; it could just as easily be the case that a syllabic song was converted into a melisma for a Kyrie verse.

And I'd sing them the chorus and the melody — no lyrics or anything — and straight away five pencils and pads came out and they were throwing lines at us.

When Rubbra was much older he came to realize that this ' topsy-turveydom ', as he called it, had caused him to often use short pieces of melody which would sound good, both in their original form and when inverted ( so that when the original melody goes up a certain amount, the inverted one goes down the same amount ).

As a dance music producer, his first big success came with the single " Somebody Dance with Me ", which borrows its melody from Rockwell's Somebody's Watching Me.

According to his autobiography, the lyrics for " Political World " came to him spontaneously and were easy to write ; though no melody was composed, he came up with 20 verses.

Sometime before 1927 Alexander Fraser heard the melody from a minstrel in the Scottish Highlands and wrote it down so that it came to the attention of Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Martin Shaw.

" Fair also explained that he came up with the title for the record, and it represents the " balance of melody and aggression ," and the " process of trying to find that balance between the two.

Writer Bill Friskics-Warren has argued that part of the song's appeal came from its combination of a modern message with a familiar tune, a melody drawn from the Carter Family's " I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes " ( as were " The Wild Side of Life " and Roy Acuff's " The Great Speckled Bird ").

Seeger described the melody as coming from Aunty Laura, while the lyrics came from anthologies – probably the Parks version.

As the Mellon Collie sessions came to a conclusion, " 1979 " was just a couple of chord changes and a snippet of a melody without words.

When I came back, the melody was in my head.

Eduard Ingriš wrote the first arrangement of the piece, after Vejvoda came upon the melody and sought Ingriš's help in refining it.

On the Live at the Quick DVD, Fleck describes how after the melody for " Big Country " came to him, he called his answering machine and sang it so it would not be lost.

Criss came up with the melody for the song while on a train to New York City from New Jersey where the band practiced.

Kiedis told that " Scar Tissue " came to him in a precise moment when he heard the other band members play the music and he felt as if an exterior influx had succeeded in merging the melody and apparent words suddenly came to his unconscious mind.

The song came from a melody by John Valentine Eppel and was arranged by Frederic Knight Logan, using lyrics written by J. R. Shannon.

According to bass guitarist Duff McKagan, " Axl came up with a great lyric, seemingly out of nowhere, that of course became the story and melody of that song.