The piccolo, prima, and secunda balalaikas were originally strung with gut with the thinnest melody string made of stainless steel.

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.

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

An aria ( Italian for air ; plural: arie or arias in common usage ) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

It is uncertain who may have originally composed the melody, but it appears to be well known first as a French folk song called " Marlbrough s ' en va-t-en guerre " (" Marlborough has left for the war ") in the 18th century about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.

The melody was derived from a jingle by Cook and Greenaway originally called " True Love and Apple Pie ".

Ludwig van Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " melody is already the official anthem of the European Union ( in that case purely instrumental without lyrics ), the melody is widely recognized and easily performed, in the public domain, and originally composed for voice.

The seventh note was not part of the medieval hexachord and does not occur in this melody, and it was originally called " si " from " Sancte Ioannes ".

Also, the song " So Far Away " was originally written and recorded with the title " Dancing In Your Blood "; the song had the same basic structure, but different lyrics, more minimal instrumentation, and a slightly different melody.

Organum was originally improvised ; while one singer performed a notated melody ( the vox principalis ), another singer — singing " by ear "— provided the unnotated second melody ( the vox organalis ).

The song " La Chica Banda " has a hip-hop beat under a stream of Mexico City slang originally written by Jaime López, " María " is a ' bolero ' ballad about a street prostitute, " El Fin de la Infancia " a brass-heavy ' banda ranchera ' sound that reflects the influence of ' banda sinaloense ', " Desperté " has a tango-driven melody while " El Borrego " mocks speed metal.

Pilgrim's lyric sung to this melody, " He hath given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death ", was originally used by Vaughan Williams as an inscription on this movement ; while the contrasting agitated theme of the central section is taken from Pilgrim's lyric, " Save me!

The haunting introductory theme, originally contributed and played by David Cross, was taken over by the guitar, with Fripp making minor alterations to the melody.

While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").

" Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion ", originally a militant hymn containing references to trials of LDS members in the central United States and the threatening United States government ( ironically set to the melody for “ Columbia, Gem of the Ocean ,” thus asserting the Saints ’ true patriotism, despite their alleged “ rebellion ”), became an anthem for LDS members during the difficulties preceding and during the Utah War of 1857 – 58.

The tune " Cradle Song " was written by William J. Kirkpatrick for the musical Around the World with Christmas ( 1895 ) and is an adaptation of the melody originally composed in 1837 by Jonathan E. Spilman to " Sweet Afton ".

But the melody is originally known as the anthem to St. Dominic " Gaude Mater Ecclesia ", having its roots in the Italian Dominicans.

Gerald Brenan attributes the melody to originally being an old Spanish ballad in his book South from Granada.

The best example of this is Giovanni Bottesini's Gran Duo Concertante, which was a double concerto originally written for two double basses, alternating the melody.

The song's melody originally appeared as part of the soundtrack for the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends.

" Travel Hopefully " is a melody originally written as " Love Is Here " for the first ever Lloyd Webber / Rice project The Likes of Us.

The Latin version of the Ave Maria is now so frequently used with Schubert's melody that it has led to the misconception that he originally wrote the melody as a setting for the Ave Maria.

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 ").

Another example is a 1979 recording by Ray Stevens titled " I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow " where the song's intro is reminiscent of Manilow's hit, " I Write the Songs " and the vocal performance, melody, and name-dropping of Manilow song titles is a pastiche of Barry Manilow.

* Gantz Neue Padouanen, Auffzüg, Balleten, Couranten, Intraden, und Däntz à 3 ( Nuremberg, 1625 ), 6 pieces in trio sonata form ( two high melody parts with basso continuo ), five of which are titled balletto and one called a Dantz.

* A Swedish ballad titled Gå inte förbi was recorded by Sissel Kyrkjebø and Peter Jöback in 2003 using the melody ' Slane ' ( the usual melody for Be Thou My Vision ) but the lyrics have little to do with the Irish text.

Most later renditions of the song use the Richards-Fried melody ; these include versions by Steeleye Span, the Mediaeval Baebes ( titled ' This Ay Nicht ') and Alasdair Roberts.

In the spring of 2010, Stapp recorded an anthem for the National League baseball team the Florida Marlins titled " Marlins Will Soar ," a rewrite of Stapp's song " You Will Soar ," using different lyrics and a slightly different melody in the verses.

Although the song was published in the United States with Amsterdam listed as the lyricist and Jeri Sullavan and Paul Baron as musical composers, the melody had been previously published as the work of Trinidadian calypso composer Lionel Belasco on a song titled “ L ' Année Passée ,” which was in turn based on a folksong from Martinique.

The melody is used at various points throughout the show, including the piece titled " Lord of the Dance.

( Not to be confused with the identical titled melody from the soundtrack of " Mondo Cane ", 1963.

The melody and verses of The Water is Wide are used by Benjamin Britten for his arrangement which does not have the O Waly, Waly verse, yet it is titled Waly, Waly.

His inspired performance on the violin secured for him in his native country the title of “ Master of Nations .” The Sonate du Diable, also called “ Tartini ’ s Dream ”— as every one who has heard it will be ready to testify — is the most weird melody ever heard or invented: hence, the marvellous composition has become the source of endless legends.

It included Church's first foray into a more pop-influenced style in the title track Dream a Dream, borrowing the melody from Fauré's Pavane and featuring young American country singer Billy Gilman.

She also used the melody of " The Star of the County Down " for the carol " The Seven Rejoices of Mary ," released on her 2008 album A Midwinter Night's Dream.

Rapper Tupac Shakur interpolated the melody of " A Dream " for his posthumous hit, " I Ain't Mad at Cha ", just little over a few months later, R & B group Blackstreet sampled the song's music for their hit, " Don't Leave Me ".

The melody of " Stay With Me " was revisited by Ashanti on her single, " Foolish " while the melody of " A Dream " has been constantly sampled following the recordings of " I Ain't Mad at Cha " and " Don't Leave Me ".

According to Robert W. Gutman, Mozart's K. 222 Offertory in D minor, " Misericordias Domini ," written in 1775, contains a melody that foreshadows " Ode to Joy ".

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.

Shaker Loops has been described as " hauntingly ethereal ," while 1999's " Naïve and Sentimental Music " has been called " an exploration of a marvelously extended spinning melody.

The German Christmas carol " Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann ", with words by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, also uses the melody, as does the Hungarian Christmas carol " Hull a pelyhes fehér hó ", the Dutch " Altijd is Kortjakje ziek ", the Spanish " Campanita del Lugar ," and the Turkish " Daha Dun Annemizin.

" Let the Rain Pour Down " is set to the melody of " Midnight Special ," a traditional blues song popularized by Lead Belly.

* " 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.

A fragment of the lyric ( changed to " Riding down from Bangor on the midnight train ...") appears in the quodlibet of the arrangement for orchestra and chorus of Charles Ives's song " The Circus Band ," though apparently with a different melody.

According to the poet Hipponax, Mimnermus when piping used the melancholy " fig-branch strain ," apparently a traditional melody played while scapegoats were ritually driven from town, whipped with fig branches.

" Don't Let's Start "' s lyrics include a number of dark, pointed statements as " everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful ," John Linnell has repeatedly insisted that some of its lyrical twists, though pondered extensively by fans, were constructed to complement the melody and are not always meaningful.

Jimmy Buffett accused Coe of plagiarizing the melody of " Divers Do It Deeper " from Buffett's " Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes ," stating " I would have sued him, but I didn't want to give Coe the pleasure of having his name in the paper.

Q < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Ian Cranna wrote that " what sets the Pixies apart are their sudden bursts of memorable pop melody ," and noted that " they could have a bright future ahead of them.

It consisted entirely of a melody sung on the syllable " Na ," punctuated with the occasional " Way cool!

The track " Our Time " interpolates the Tommy James and the Shondells song " Crimson and Clover "; when Karen O sings " It's the year to be hated / So glad that we made it ," the melody is taken from the hit song, which reached # 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

The Northwest coast music also " is among the most complicated on the continent, especially in regard to rhythmic structure ," featuring intricate rhythmic patterns distinct from but related to the vocal melody and rigid percussion.

In Arthur C. Clarke's 1956 science fiction short story, " The Ultimate Melody ," a scientist, Gilbert Lister, develops the ultimate melody – one that so compels the brain that its listener becomes completely and forever enraptured by it.

" Melodically, the song is based on one of Guthrie's own compositions, " 1913 Massacre ," but it is possible Guthrie fashioned " 1913 Massacre " from an even earlier melody ; like many folk artists, including Dylan, Guthrie would often adopt familiar folk melodies into new compositions.

The melody was inspired by " Princess Bannen ," a myth of the Rukai Tribe composed by Biung Wang.

He became known for a piano technique known as " Shearing's voicing ," a type of double melody block chord, with an additional fifth part that doubles the melody an octave lower.

She once playfully suggested in her blog that AYRIA is an acronym for " Awesome, Yeah Really, I'm Awesome ," but her emphasis on carefully constructed melody with ethereal vocals does recall the derivation of her stage name from classical music.

The song samples several other songs including the keyboard component of The Who's song " Baba O ' Riley ," the organ from the introduction to Deep Purple song " Child in Time ", a drum break from Tommy Roe's " Sweet Pea ", drums and guitars from a break from Pigmeat Markham's " Here Comes the Judge ", a line from The Sugarhill Gang's song " Rapper's Delight " where Big Bank Hank raps " a time to laugh, a time to cry ", and a vocal sample from Peter Sellers featuring Fred Flange's song " You Keep Me Swingin '" featuring Sellers talking about " rhythm and melody ".

" Gaudeamus omnes ," from the Graduale Aboense, was scripted using square notation. In the early 11th century, Beneventan neumes ( from the churches of Benevento in southern Italy ) were written at varying distances from the text to indicate the overall shape of the melody ; such neumes are called heightened or diastematic neumes, which showed the relative pitches between neumes.

The school's recognized fight song is " Glory to Stevens ," sung to the melody of " Glory to Dartmouth ," the fight song of nearby Dartmouth College.