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

For example the same reel Rakish Paddy is notated in 2 / 2 time with an alla breve ( cut time ) Image: mensural proportion1. gif time signature in Miles Krassen, O ' Neill's Music of Ireland, New & Revisited, p. 158, ( 1976 ), whereas in 4 / 4 time in Robin Williamson, English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes, p. 69, ( 1976 ), each measure in both cases spanning the same part of the melody.

Those inventive harmonies, on both cornet and piano, eventually helped point the way to bebop, which abandoned melody almost entirely.

Razaf described his partner as " the soul of melody ... a man who made the piano sing ... both big in body and in mind ... known for his generosity ... a bubbling bundle of joy ".

In the 1850s, Anglo-German concertina's ability to play both melody and accompaniment led English manufacturers to start developing the various Duet systems, and the popular Maccann system were developed towards the end of the century.

Two time signatures are used, 18 / 16 for the incessant melody written in 16th notes and 3 / 4 for the accompaniment in quarter and eighth notes ; during the last five bars, both hands play in 18 / 16.

In the case of Djamileh, the accusation of " Wagnerism " was raised again, as audiences struggled to understand the score's originality ; many found the music pretentious and monotonous, lacking in both rhythm and melody.

From live performances and both live and studio recordings, the new material was obviously a further progression ; the group was experimenting with various time signatures, such as 7 / 4, and was using more melody and a greater variation in song structure.

To this melody, in 1859 ( after the deaths of both Mendelssohn siblings ), Gounod fitted the words of the Ave Maria, resulting in a setting that became world-famous .< ref >

Instrumental performances tend to differ from the original version in one of the following aspects or both: the last line of the melody is often played once first as an introduction, and furthermore, many instrumental recordings are of only one verse.

A regulator uses keys ( five on the tenor and four on both baritone and bass ) to accompany the melody of the chanter ; these keys are arranged in rows to give limited two note " chords ", or, alternatively, single notes for emphasis on phrases or specific notes.

More subtle systems ( such as Hupfeld's " Solodant " and Aeolian's " Themodist ") have a graduated theme control where the background subdued level and the foreground melody level are both controllable.

Their songwriting efforts had Pomus write the lyrics and Shuman the melody, although quite often they worked on both.

Often a melody is associated with the riddim, and occasionally an artist will produce two different songs with the same riddim ( e. g. Elephant Man's " Ele Melody " and " Father Elephant " were both produced using the Kopa riddim, produced by Supa Dups ).

The melody dates back to 1755 and was sung by both American and British troops.

It has two major forms: largely instrumental surf rock, with an electric guitar or saxophone playing the main melody, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, and vocal surf pop, including both surf ballads and dance music, often with strong harmonies that are most associated with The Beach Boys.

* Nigun means " melody " in both Yiddish and Hebrew, a mid-paced song in 2 / 4.

In the modern large Chinese orchestra, it is used for both melody and accompaniment

The technique is very similar to that of piano in as much as the player covers both bass and melody notes together with both hands and each note is struck with one finger of one hand.

The British musician Nick Beggs uses a Grand Stick, fully MIDI-capable of triggering from both bass and melody strings.

The melody instruments used are often both violins.

John Taylor wrote of him in A History of Ten Baptist Churches, " His preaching was of the most solemn style ; his appearance as of a man who had just come from the dead ; of a delicate habit, a thin visage, large eyes and mouth ; the sweet melody of his voice, both in preaching and singing, bore all down before it.

In pipes of the Carpathian basin up to five separate chanter bores may be placed in parallel within a single chanter assembly, providing both melodic and rhythmic possibilities: in the simplest case, one pipe is used to play the melody while the second provides a variable drone, while more complex pipes may separate certain individual notes into separate, stopped pipes.

" The strange capacity which we have for being affected by melody and harmony, may be taken to imply both that it is within the possibilities of our nature to realize those intenser delights they dimly suggest, and that they are in some way concerned in the realization of them.

A recording of Phair's version of " Wild Thing " ( based on the melody of The Troggs song ) was planned for inclusion, but dropped at the last moment.

In 1987, King accused the Pet Shop Boys of plagiarizing the melody of Cat Stevens ' " Wild World " for their song " It's A Sin.

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 ".

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 ").

The same melody was later used in the 1952 country hit " The Wild Side of Life ," sung by Hank Thompson, and the even more successful " answer song " performed by Kitty Wells called " It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels.

Their latest albums Zov Krovi ( Зов Крови, Call of Blood ) and Dikiye Travy ( Дикие Травы, Wild Grasses, released early 2009 ) features the same lyrical and melody themes underscored by more rhythm section support from the band.

According to Alex Ross, this movement supplied the melody for Bernstein's " Somewhere " from West Side Story.

It was shortened to " Skin Trade " and LeBon eventually wrote the melody and lyrics for the track while spending an evening in Taylor's Upper West Side Manhattan apartment.

Bob Dylan used the melody of " The Patriot Game " which he saw the Clancy Brothers play in a pub in England, for his own song " With God on Our Side ".

In 1975 he recorded a jingle for Kodak written by Bill Lane ( lyrics ) and Roger Nichols ( melody ) called " Times of Your Life ".

This purely instrumental, programmatic work ( subtitled ' Episode in the Life of an Artist ') features a recurring melody representing the object of the artist's obsessive affection and depicting her presence in various real and imagined situations.

The album also featured a track penned by Billy Steinberg and Chris Kusch provided the piano melody on the album track " Take A Look At Your Life ".

Borrowing large parts of its melody from ABBA's " SOS " and Indeep's " Last Night a DJ Saved My Life ", the song humorously targeted Austrian ski resorts and yodeling and sold five million copies worldwide.

* Although Lennon said that McCartney helped only with " the middle eight " ( implying a short section ) of " In My Life ", McCartney has said that he wrote the entire melody, taking inspiration from Smokey Robinson songs.

Reich developed his ' speech melody ' work further with projects such as The Cave ( 1993 ) and City Life ( 1995 ).

Ringo uses the riff-driven melody from George's song " What Is Life " in the middle of this song, right before he makes reference to " All Things Must Pass ".

2 ), the ballad " Hold On " is based upon the same melody, and the opening track " This Little Life Of Mine " is clearly indebted to the spiritual " This Little Light Of Mine ".

In 2004, the corps performed " A Celebration of Life: Mind, Body, and Spirit ," whose opening piece, " Ballet Exaltaire ," quotes the Doxology hymn melody.