2 ( Danse de negres ) ( 1845 ), the title referring to a bass Afro-Caribbean drum ; El cocoye ( 1853 ), a version of a rhythmic melody already present in Cuba ; the contradanza Ojos criollos ( Danse cubaine ) ( 1859 ) and a version of María de la O, which refers to a Cuban mulatto singer.

It is, after all, a non-romantic work ( even with the big, juicy melody of the second movement ) ; ;

He plays his sax principally for beauty of tone, rather than for scintillating flights of meaningless improvisations, and he has a quiet way of getting back and restating the melody after the improvising is over.

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.

For at least 12 years after its publication, the " Maple Leaf Rag " heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines, harmonic progressions or metric patterns.

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.

The gentle, expressive melody heard at the beginning on woodwind and horns ( after the piano ’ s heralding introductory chords ) bears the material for most of the argument in the first movement.

The melody soon became the rallying call to the French Revolution and was adopted as La Marseillaise after the melody was first sung on the streets by volunteers ( fédérés in French ) from Marseille by the end of May.

In " No Strings ( reprise )", Rogers, after storming upstairs to complain, returns to her room at which point Astaire, still intent on dancing, nominates himself her " sandman ", sprinkling sand from a cuspidor and lulling her, Horton and eventually himself to sleep with a soft and gentle sand dance, to a diminuendo reprise of the melody, in a scene which has drawn considerable admiration from dance commentators, and has been the subject of affectionate screen parodies.

* Japanese children sing this melody with improvised lyrics of " Monkey ( in Japanese, saru )-Gorilla-Chimpanzee " as a joke, while among grown-ups the lyrics as a title " Kuchibue Fuite ( When We Whistle ) are well known after a 1963 NHK children's program, Minna no Uta, performed this song.

Mercer Ellington has stated that Juan Tizol invented the melody to " Caravan " in 1936 as a result of his days studying music in Puerto Rico ; where they couldn't afford much sheet music so the teacher would turn the music upside down after they had learned to play it right-side up.

Brian Wilson's father told of Brian's unusual musical abilities prior to his first birthday, observing that the baby could repeat the melody from " When the Caissons Go Rolling Along " after only a few verses had been sung by the father.

Totaka has also hidden his 19-note signature melody in the game, which may be heard on the Trial Mode course select screen, after the background music has looped eight times.

It is played for a second time, with a slightly different accompaniment, after the second melody has been introduced by the woodwinds.

The night after the ultimatum was accepted, the composer, Alfredo Keil, at the suggestion of a group of friends that included Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro and Teófilo Braga, wrote the melody for A Portuguesa as a patriotic protest march.

The British rock band Oasis were sued after their recording " Shakermaker " borrowed its melody and some lyrics directly ; they were forced to change their composition.

With the act on the national symbols of Slovenia, passed in 1994, the eponymous melody by Stanko Premrl, written after the lyrics of the seventh stanza of the Prešeren's poem, emphasising internationalism, has been defined as the anthem.

In the second half, there is a remarkable pianissimo passage where the treble holds a chord for four full bars while the bass repeats a little three-note figure over and over, eight times, after which the melody proceeds as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

In this melody, each of the first six musical phrases of each stanza of the hymn begins on a successively higher note of the hexachord, corresponding to the tone proposed by Guido of Arezzo, except the last line, Sancte Iohannes, which is an adonius after the three Sapphic hendecasyllables, breaking the ascending pattern.

Concerned about the allusions to plagiarism, Bob swears that he first thought of the tune after his Army outfit landed in France four years earlier, but guest Al Newman, a music critic, identifies the melody as a 2000-year-old Gregorian Chant.

The " Ricercar a 6 " has been arranged on its own on a number of occasions, the most prominent arranger being Anton Webern, who in 1935 made a version for small orchestra, noted for its Klangfarbenmelodie style ( i. e. melody lines are passed on from one instrument to another after every few notes, every note receiving the " tone color " of the instrument it is played on ):

" At Valjevo, as at so many other places, in the desert, in Bosnia, in Italy, Dalmatia, and Serbia, we would tune our wireless sets in the evening to Radio Belgrade, and night after night, always at the same time, would come, throbbing lingeringly over the ether, the cheap, sugary and almost painfully nostalgic melody, the sex-laden, intimate, heart-rending accents of Lili Marlene.

His melody was first publicly performed in July 1888 and became widely used soon after.

The piece was written and put to melody in London in 1943 after Anna Marly heard a Russian song that provided her with inspiration.

They went to the deaths bravely singing Aleinu to a " soul-stirring " melody, which astonished their executioners.

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.

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.