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.

It was a slow and rhythmic samba music and had an emphasis on melody and generally easy acceptance.

Although performers may choose to play in a certain style or key, or at a certain tempo, conventional songs are highly uncommon in free improvisation ; more emphasis is generally placed on mood, texture or more simply, on performative gesture than on preset forms of melody, harmony or rhythm.

The tenor generally sings in falsetto voice, corresponding roughly to the countertenor in classical music, and harmonizes above the lead, who sings the melody.

More generally noise music may contain aspects such as improvisation, extended technique, cacophony and indeterminacy, and in many instances conventional use of melody, harmony, rhythm and pulse is often dispensed with.

The words to which they are sung are generally to a rhyming scheme and are in a strophic form ( the same melody used for different verses ).

The first nocturnes to be written under the specific title were by the Irish composer John Field, generally viewed as the father of the Romantic nocturne that characteristically features a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated, even guitar-like accompaniment.

The version of the melody that is generally sung today differs slightly ( particularly in the final strain ) from Gruber's original, which was a sprightly, dance-like tune in 6 / 8 time, as opposed to the slow, meditative lullaby version generally sung today.

Vocals are typically subdued in volume and tone, but a strong sense of melody generally exists underneath the layers of guitars.

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.

The exact version of this theme tune varied in some episodes / series-for example, the drum beats in the music in some episodes / series were more emphasised, as was the synthesizer melody, but generally it remained the same.

Vocals are typically subdued in volume and tone, but underneath the layers of guitars is generally a strong sense of melody.

Each of the four parts has its own role: generally, the lead sings the melody, the tenor harmonizes above the melody, the bass sings the lowest harmonizing notes, and the baritone completes the chord, usually below the lead.

At the " Filmi Melody: Song and Dance in Indian Cinema " archive presentation at UCLA, filmi was praised as a generally more fitting term for the tradition than ' Bombay melody ' " to suggest that the exuberant music and melodrama so closely identified with the Hindi commercial cinema produced in Bombay ( Mumbai ) are truly pan-Indian.

The instrument is generally strung with the melody string ( or string pair ) on the player's side of the instrument, and the bass string on the outside.

In its most traditional form, the song starts with an introduction played on the solo instrument ( this introduction generally being the same melody as the refrain ) and then the song develops in an alternation between the main strophes and the refrain.

The arrangements were generally very tongue-in-cheek ; often Ellis arranged them in different meters than the original, or arranged for the melody to be played in a humorous way.

Rhythm, tempo and beat are subordinate to the melody line or tune, which is generally easily memorable, and followed without great difficulty.

While the strings and piano accompaniment are generally centered around a d-minor chord, the vocal melody is highly chromatic and dissonant.

In more recent live full band performances ( with either ELP or with The Keith Emerson Band ), Emerson generally plays a version of the interlude melody on Hammond organ, whereas on earlier live versions, Greg Lake would sing and perform the piece on acoustic guitar sans any Moog solo or drums ( such as on Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends ... Ladies and Gentlemen ).

Hundreds of different jingles separate programs from commercials ; they are generally played at the same decibel level and are variations on a single melody.

Jazz and other forms of modern popular music are generally homophonic, following chord progressions over which musicians play a melody or improvise ( see melody-dominated homophony ).

" But resemblances to German folk-song of the end of the seventeenth century may be found generally throughout the melody.