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.

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.

" The melody is adapted from Handel's 1722 cantata Se tu non lasci amore, and is in Luckett's view the most successful of the Italian borrowings.

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

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.