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 melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Holst himself adapted the melody of the central section of Jupiter in 1921 to fit the metre of a poem beginning " I vow to thee, my country ".

The film is noted for its use of ragtime, particularly the melody, " The Entertainer ", by Scott Joplin, which was adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch ( and became a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch, when released as a single from the film's soundtrack ).

* " 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 Secret Marriage " from this album was adapted from a melody by German composer Hanns Eisler, and " Englishman In New York " was about the eccentric writer Quentin Crisp.

* " I'm Always Chasing Rainbows " w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll ( melody adapted from Chopin )

The melody was adapted from a 1911 hymn by Charles Austin Miles entitled Dwelling in Beulah Land.

A melody from Joseph is very similar to a popular folk melody widely known in Germany which was used as a song in the Imperial German Navy, and adapted, notoriously, as the tune for the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

* " Lugano " ( adapted from a melody in Catholic Hymn Tunes, 1849 )

Saga people adapted the melody and used it to recreate the song " Takeno Shintaro-san ".

The song was sung at football matches by fans of the Republic of Ireland team. The melody of the chorus was adapted for Ally's Tartan Army, the Scotland national football team's anthem for the FIFA World Cup 1978, this was itself adapted as the chorus of Put ' Em Under Pressure, the anthem for the Republic of Ireland team for the FIFA World Cup 1990.

The music was adapted and arranged to Watts ' lyrics by Lowell Mason in 1839 from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel, not least because the theme of the refrain ( And heaven and nature sing ...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio.

Mills adapted the melody from Schumann's " Merry Peasant "

Some were childhood reminiscences, such as Gene Autry's recording " Rancho Grande " from which one of the guitar lines in " Veteran's Day Poppy " was adapted, or the " Shortnin ' Bread " melody used in " Pachuco Cadaver ".

It used a similar melody to Jim Jackson's 1927 " Kansas City Blues " and was itself adapted several years later for " Rock Around The Clock ".

* The melody and chorus of " Back and Forth " was adapted by R. Kelly for Aaliyah's song " Back and Forth ".

Sears ' lyrics are most commonly set to one of two melodies: " Carol ," composed by Richard Storrs Willis, or " Noel ," adapted from an English melody.

In the United Kingdom the tune called " Noel ", which was adapted from an English melody in 1874 by Arthur Sullivan, is the usual accompaniment.

Remarkably, this melody was later appropriated into the formative bluegrass music genre as the basis for the song " Goin ' Home " ( attributed to William Arms Fisher ); it soon became a bluegrass standard and was later adapted into a popular spiritual-style song.

As song lyrics in Tibet usually contained stanzas of 4 lines of 6 syllables each, the lyrics could be easily adapted to almost any melody.

In 1951, Jesse Rogers adapted " Wabash Cannonball " into " Jukebox Cannonball " by retaining the original melody but replacing it with a new set of lyrics.