Aided by friends Lauren Andrews and Yvonne Chen – both of whom would contribute to the band's early recordings – Xiu Xiu would tour their first LP Knife Play, and its successor EP, Chapel of the Chimes, throughout the years 2001 and 2002, blending both melody and cacophony with a heavy reliance on percussive instrumentation and brass instrumentation.

The melody is from a barcarolle, " Song of the Cabin Boy ", from Les Cloches de Corneville ( literally The Bells of Corneville ; presented in English-speaking countries as The Chimes of Normandy ), a light opera composed by Robert Planquette in 1877.

Of particular significance is the main melody, which is made up of a patchwork of motives from old plantation tunes such as Massa's in the Cold Ground and Old Black Joe, and the patriotic Civil War songs Marching Through Georgia and The Battle Cry of Freedom.

Over the rattling of fenders, humming of tires and chattering of gears there was a charming melody of whispers and tiny giggles.

The lyric, Mercer remembers, was tailored to fit the unusual melody.

She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody.

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.

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

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

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.

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.

Herbert chose in the books that followed to undermine Paul ’ s triumph with a string of failures and philosophical paradoxes ; Dune was a heroic melody, and Dune Messiah was its inversion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was usually written in 2 / 4 or 4 / 4 time with a predominant left hand pattern of bass notes on strong beats ( beats 1 and 3 ) and chords on weak beats ( beat 2 and 4 ) accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand.

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

This kind of samba was characterized by extensive compositions of melody and patriotic verses.

The judge ruled that any similarities in the melody were minor and " Titles " was a Vangelis original.

If the viola was given a melodic part, it was often duplicated ( or was in unison with ) the melody played by other strings.

Kandinsky was similarly influenced during this period by Richard Wagner's Lohengrin which, he felt, pushed the limits of music and melody beyond standard lyricism.

The melody was first written down in 1574.

Then Bugs deliberately unplugs the jukebox and takes over the fiddling and square dance calling, still to the melody and rhythm of the song before saying " And that is all.

There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft of " A Real Slow Drag " by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.

All other voices were normally calculated in relation to the tenor, which often proceeded in longer note values and carried a borrowed Cantus firmus melody.

The British rock band Oasis were sued after their recording " Shakermaker " borrowed its melody and some lyrics directly ; they were forced to change their composition.

The American version borrowed part of its melody from the Japanese version, but any similarities ended there.

Prior to Simon's learning the song, Bob Dylan had borrowed the melody and several lines from Carthy's arrangement in creating his song, " Girl from the North Country ", which appeared on The Freewheelin ' Bob Dylan ( 1963 ), Nashville Skyline ( 1969 ) ( together with Johnny Cash ), Real Live ( 1984 ) and The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration ( 1993 ).

The melody was either borrowed from a preexisting tune or made up on the spot.

Many popular songs in the United States have borrowed melodies from tango: the earliest published tango, El Choclo, lent its melody to the fifties hit Kiss of Fire.

In 1987, he suggested in his Sun column that the Pet Shop Boys had borrowed the melody of Cat Stevens's 1970 song " Wild World " for their UK number one single " It's a Sin ".

The melody was either borrowed from a preexisting tune or made up on the spot.

Cash borrowed the melody for the song and many of the lyrics from Gordon Jenkins's 1953 Seven Dreams concept album, specifically the song " Crescent City Blues ".

# The vocal melody in the chorus of " To Rid the Disease " is borrowed from a track recorded by Mikael Åkerfeldt's sideproject Sörskogen, " Mordet i Grottan ".

Its melody was borrowed by Richard Stallman for the tune of the Free Software Song.

" The melody borrowed and used almost literally is called " Simple Gifts.

The song's melody was borrowed from Kielce March no.

The melody from this song was borrowed from an earlier song entitled, " Practically Perfect " which had, by then, been deleted from the 1964 film production.

Waters has said that the main chord sequence and melody was not initially part of The Wall, but was borrowed from The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, which Waters wrote at the same time as The Wall, but recorded later as his first solo release.

Missionary Chant begins in the same way as Dorrance except for an added note, which occasionally Ives adds to his paraphrased melody, suggesting Missionary Chant may also be borrowed.

It borrowed the main trumpet melody from the Johnny Cash recording of the same name.

) On the morning of the Ninth of Ab a third melody is used for the Haftarah — although this melody is borrowed from the melody for the Book of Ruth.

The melody, later used in Rock Around the Clock, was also borrowed by Hank Williams for Move It On Over and Mind Your Own Business.

With the verse beginning " It really doesn't matter " a B melody note anchors a kalidoscope of shifting and borrowed chords as follows: on " really doesn't " ( harmonising as a 5th with a V ( E ) chord ); on " matter " ( harmonising as the root of a ( ii7 ) Bm7 chord ); on " chords " ( harmonising as a 3rd in a ♭ VII ( G ) chord ); on " play " ( harmonising as a ♭ 7th in a III7 ( C # 7 ) chord ) and on " words I say " ( harmonising as a 4th on a VI7 ( F # 7 ) chord.

With different lyrics, the chorus in ESG's " Grippin ' Grain " borrowed the catchy music and melody from the chorus of Soul for Real's immensely popular " Candy Rain " track released five years earlier.