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.

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:

To highlight these episodes he used changes in instrumentation, melody, and mode.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

The French singer Claude Nougaro used its melody for his tribute to Louis Armstrong in French, under the name Armstrong.

In contrast with bebop, hard bop used slower tempos and a less radical approach to harmony and melody, often adopting popular tunes and standards from the American songbook as starting points for improvisation.

Fresh material having come to light, a new edition of the poems ( Die Gedichte des Paulus Diaconus ) has been edited by Karl Neff ( Munich, 1908 ), who denies, however, the attribution to Paul of the most famous poem in the collection, the Ut queant laxis, a hymn to St. John the Baptist, which Guido d ' Arezzo fitted to a melody which had previously been used for Horace's Ode 4. 11.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

The Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of melody to write the aria " Ovunque al mondo ... ", in 1904 for his work Madama Butterfly.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

The melody was first used in Luxembourg ( at the time in personal union with the Kingdom of the United Netherlands ) on the occasion of the visit of the Dutch King and Grand Duke of Luxembourg William III in 1883.

The second major variation is the song " Wenn alle untreu werden " ( German: " If everyone becomes unfaithful ") better known as " Das Treuelied ", which was written by the poet Max von Schenkendorf ( 1783 – 1817 ) and used exactly the same melody as the Wilhelmus.

The melody is used, with rewritten English lyrics, as the alma mater of Northwestern College ( Iowa ) in Orange City, Iowa, USA.

Puccini used three of these in the opera, including the national anthem ( heard during the appearance of the Empero Altoum ) and, most memorably, the folk melody " Mo-li-hua " (" Jasmine Flower ") which is first heard sung by the children's chorus after the invocation to the moon in Act I, and becomes a sort of ' leitmotif ' for the princess throughout the opera.

Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music and anthems, and the melody of a Chinese song named " Mò Li Hūa ( 茉莉花 )", or " Jasmine ", is included as a motif for the princess.

Although almost all whistles have some musical character, common whistles are not usually considered musical instruments, since they cannot play a melody, unless used as a – very shrill and loud – noise and rhythm instrument.

This interest was first manifested in Weber's incidental music for Schiller's translation of Gozzi's Turandot, for which he used a Chinese melody, making him the first Western composer to use an Asian tune that was not of the pseudo-Turkish kind popularized by Mozart and others.

The term orchestration in its specific sense refers to the way instruments are used to portray any musical aspect such as melody or harmony.

The theme song for All New Captain Kangaroo used the opening notes and part of the melody of the original theme as its introduction.

A later parody, based on a 1960s television commercial which used the melody, sung by schoolchildren in the United States, is called " Comet ", and deals with the effects of consuming a popular brand of household cleanser.

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.

The melody of Maamme is also used for the national anthem of Estonia with a similarly themed text, Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm, My Fatherland, My Happiness and Joy ( 1869 ).

Three of these ( or four on a Ghandar-pancham sitar or " Vilayat Khan " style aka Etawa gharana ), called the chikaari, simply provide a drone: the rest are used to play the melody, though the first string ( baajtaar ) is most used.

In Finland the same melody is used as the children's psalm ( Hear, Heavenly Father ).

In 2010 Alan Caswell from Australia initiated a lawsuit when it was discovered that " Christmas in Dixie " had actually used the melody of his copyrighted music from the television show Prisoner.