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.

" Amazing Grace ", with the words written by Newton and joined with " New Britain ", the melody most currently associated with it, appeared for the first time in Walker's shape note tunebook Southern Harmony in 1847.

After he's written the melody, then I write the lyrics.

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 ".

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.

Most music is written for two hands ; typically the right hand plays the melody in the treble range, while the left plays an accompaniment of bass notes and chords in the bass range.

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.

Its melody was written in the 19th century by German Wilhelm Speidel.

A rapid melodic line written predominantly in sixteenth notes is accompanied by another melody with longer note values, which features very wide leaps:

Most of the melody is written out using thirty-second notes, and ornamented with a few appoggiaturas ( more frequent in the second section ) and a few mordents.

The melody is written out predominantly in 16th and 32nd notes, with many chromaticisms.

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.

Bizet finished the score during the summer, and was pleased with the outcome: " I have written a work that is all clarity and vivacity, full of colour and melody ".

Dean sees evidence in the piano work Romance sans parole, written before 1854, of " the conjunction of melody, rhythm and accompaniment " that is characteristic of Bizet's mature works.

One piece of music, chosen by John Ford himself, is most prominent, the melody “ The Isle of Innisfree ”, written not by Young, but by the Irish policeman / songwriter Richard Farrelly ( Dick Farrelly ), who wrote it on a bus journey from County Meath to Dublin.

* First time Army bugle call Taps played: July 1862, by bugler Oliver W. Norton ; the melody was written at Harrison's Landing on the plantation by then General Daniel Butterfield.

" Baía " based its melody off of the Brazilian song " Na Baixa do Sapateiro " which was written by Ary Barroso and first released in 1938.

" You Belong to My Heart " based its melody off of the Mexican song " Solamente una vez ", which was written by Agustín Lara.

The melody of " Happy Birthday to You " comes from the song " Good Morning to All ", which was written and composed by American siblings Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893.

The original lyrics were written by Richard Dybeck in 1844, to the melody of a variant of the ballad Kärestans död.

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

The first nocturnes to be written under the specific title were by the Irish composer John Field, generally viewed as the father of the Romantic nocturne that characteristically features a cantabile melody over an arpeggiated, even guitar-like accompaniment.

Its lyrics are based on a Waka poem written in the Heian period ( 794-1185 ), sung to a melody written in the imperial period ( 1868 – 1945 ).