By the 19th century, accompagnato had gained the upper hand, the orchestra played a much bigger role, and Richard Wagner revolutionised opera by abolishing almost all distinction between aria and recitative in his quest for what he termed " endless melody ".

The album's lead single, " Downfall ," gained the band its breakthrough popularity for both its infectious melody and unusual music video.

He gained the assistance of a fellow performer, Thomas á Becket, who wrote the lyrics and melody for him.

The melody gained popularity in Russia and adjoining countries during World War I, when the Russian soldiers left their homes accompanied by this music.

The single again featured Marr's strident acoustic guitar rhythms and lead melody guitar lines with wide leaps.

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

A wave of romantica singers, found wide audiences with a new style characterized by romantic lyrics, an emphasis on the melody over rhythm, and use of percussion breaks and chord changes.

He did a wide range of studies of the phenomenological characteristics of the sounds of different instruments, the determinants of melody, tonal fusion, and the consonance and dissonance of tones.

His travels were wide, and extended over Spain, Greece, Armenia, remote districts of Asia and Africa, and even Greenland, in search of uncorrupted forms of national melody.

When used in English, the term specifically refers to elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuoso-like material.

Early African American blues dances were very simple in their core movement and allowed for a wide variety of musical interpretation, embodying a black aesthetic approach to rhythm, movement and melody which permeated black music.

At the park's edge the spectacular Ostimuri Zoo awaits you, an artificial habitat where a wide variety of animals exist, the song of birds as you stroll through this place is like a melody from heaven.

Not only do the voices sing or play the same melody, they do so at different speeds ( or prolations, a mensuration term that dates to the medieval and Renaissance eras ).

Henryk Górecki ( born 1933 ) has used this beautiful Renaissance melody in at least three compositions: Chorale in the Form of a Canon ( 1961 / 1984 ), Old Polish Music ( 1969 ), and the First String Quartet ( 1988 ), subtitled Już się zmierzcha ( It Is Growing Dusk ).

The risqué humour ( often about sexual intrigue ) and mostly gentle satiric barbs in these pieces, together with Offenbach's facility for melody, made them internationally known, and translated versions were successful in Vienna, London and elsewhere in Europe.

The fact that the Council of Europe had adopted this tune as the " Anthem of Europe " in January 1972 apparently did not perturb the Rhodesian government ; John Sutherland and Stephen Fender comment that Rhodesia's choice proved deeply embarrassing for the British Labour administration, whose leaders now had to respect a melody associated with Rhodesia when attending official European functions.

Because of its use by " Rise, O Voices of Rhodesia ", the " Ode to Joy " melody is controversial in Zimbabwe, where its annual playing at foreign embassies on Europe Day initially caused shock to Zimbabwean government officials who, according to historian Josephine Fisher, had not previously been aware of the song's use by the Council of Europe.

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

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 ").

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.

Bob Dylan used the melody in his song " Blind Willie McTell " ( released on Bootleg Series, Volumes 1 – 3 ), named for blues singer Blind Willie McTell ( who had recorded a version under the title " Dying Crapshooter's Blues "); the song makes reference to the St. James Hotel in Minneapolis.

Bosnian Serb from Banja Luka, Dušan Šestić composed the melody, to which initially there were no lyrics under the working title Intermeco, which is commonly referred to as the title of the anthem.

While his nurse would sometimes sing folksongs, the peasant choirs who sang using the podgolosnaya technique ( an improvised style — literally under the voice-which uses improvised dissonant harmonies below the melody ) influenced the way he later felt free to emancipate himself from the smooth progressions of Western harmony.

The final section, in which the drive of the previous sixteen minutes is replaced by a gentle melody and a lyrical prayer for peace, was released as a U. S. single under the title " Soon " in early 1975.

The song also appears under the title " There's Whiskey in the Jar " in the Joyce collection, but that only includes the melody line without any lyrics.

The piano supplies rich effects in the Nature imagery of the poems, the voices of the elements, the creatures and active objects, the rushing storm, the crying wind, the water under the ice, birds singing, ravens croaking, dogs baying, the rusty weathervane grating, the posthorn calling, and the drone and repeated melody of the hurdy-gurdy.

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.

It was re-released in 1998 under the name Die Erste, with the uncleared sample in " Back " replaced by a distinctively off-key piano melody played by Textor.

In the early days of the Western square dance revival ( the 1940s and early 1950s ), most hoedowns were traditional fiddle tunes ; since the late 1950s, recordings of simple chord progressions, with no discernible melody, have also been sold to callers under the name " hoedown.

The album under construction included commercial-friendly uptempo songs such as the title track " Grow Up and Blow Away ", " Raw Sugar ", and " Soft Rock Star " ( distinguished by a vaguely Beatlesque melody, high-pitched singing in the chorus, and lyrics evoking middle school angst ), downtempo songs like " White Gold ", " The Twist ", and " Rock Me Now " ( which included singing by Shaw, spoken-word vocals by Haines in a manner reminiscent of " The Mandate ", and had an overall jazzy vibe ).

In 1850, Richard Storrs Willis, a composer who trained under Felix Mendelssohn, wrote the melody called " Carol.

Merrill actually wrote it on deadline, scribbled hastily on a paper napkin in an Italian restaurant in New York, United States using the wall pay-phone to dictate the melody, rhythm and lyrics to the recording studio pianist, under the aegis of conductor Mitch Miller.

The music, originally to be set to the tune of Auld Lang Syne, proved unworkable, and Karl A. Langlotz, a professor of music at Princeton who had studied composition under Franz Liszt, wrote a new melody for the song's lyrics.

The background notes are mostly suited to the shape and position of the hand, despite a few leaps of the melody ; in the end, the left hand takes a modified, E-flat major version of the E-flat minor melody, under the right hand.

Music accompanied by words can be classified under the following headings: Türkü ( folksongs ), Koşma ( free-form folk songs about love or nature ), Semai ( folk song in Semai poetic form ), Mani ( a traditional Turkish quatrain form ), Destan ( epic ), Deyiş ( speech ), Uzun Hava ( long melody ), Bozlak ( a folk song form ), Ağıt ( a lament ), Hoyrat, Maya ( a variety of Turkish folksong ), Boğaz Havası ( throat tune ), Teke Zorlatması, Ninni ( lullaby ), Tekerleme ( a playful form in folk narrative ), etc.

The result is a nonchalant, seemingly uninspired melody expressing Harrison's dissatisfaction with contractual requirements while the real action happens " under the table " where seemingly haphazard harmony cleverly pulls the strings.

The movement's main theme is a short melody, that we hear alternatively under its original form and its inversion, but the latter only appears briefly and episodically, spaced out by call signals and shudders of the orchestra which constitute an expressive background.

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.

Clarinets, piccolos, and flutes also tend to carry the melody, but often are assigned obbligatos and other various integral lines.

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.

This hidden theme has been the subject of much speculation, and various musicians have proposed theories for what melody it could be, although Elgar did not say that it was a melody.

This purely instrumental, programmatic work ( subtitled ' Episode in the Life of an Artist ') features a recurring melody representing the object of the artist's obsessive affection and depicting her presence in various real and imagined situations.

The same melody is also used with different lyrics for various institutional songs: Hail, Pennsylvania!

Nick 13's emphasis on melody and his lyrical inspirations from various types of literature have helped to distinguish them from some of the more " novelty " aspects the psychobilly genre sometimes embraces.

Describing the various songs on Bleach, Christopher Sandford wrote: "' Paper Cuts ' includes a folk-influence melody and ponderous rhythm of an early Led Zeppelin number ; ' Mr. Moustache ' addressed itself on Nirvana's male fans ; ' Downer ' showed the same exceptional contempt for the group's audience ".

Such a texture can be regarded as a kind of complex monophony in which there is only one basic melody, but realized at the same time in multiple voices, each of which plays the melody differently, either in a different rhythm or tempo, or with various embellishments and elaborations.

Cantelon's idea was to have various artists recite the text over primal rock music, but Jones elected to try something that had never been done, to improvise her own impression of the texts, melody and lyric, in stream of consciousness sessions, rather than read Jesus ' words.

In total, the track was almost a half an hour long and it included both the in-game music, composed by already leading video game musician George " The Fat Man " Sanger, and two live music recordings: " The Game ", whose melody in various permutations and stylistic variations became the background music for most of the game ( as well as the theme for a piano puzzle ) and whose lyrics were based on Stauf's twisted plot, and " Skeletons in My Closet ", a jazzy tune with a female lead voice ( Kris McKay ) which was the ending-credits theme.

There will also be gongs of various types and a larger bass gramtang called a Jegog playing the underlying melody.

" For use of the latter, the producers had to acquire the rights from General Mills, which had used the melody with various lyrics to promote Wheaties for more than forty years.

From here, a second section begins which modulates to various other keys, including G minor and B flat major, but continues to feature the melody of the main theme.

The pat waing drum circle, for example, consists of twenty-one drums, one tuned to each tone in each possible combination, and the saing saya ( maestro ) sits in the middle using various parts of his hands to strike the drums in order to produce a melody.

The Smashing Pumpkins covered " Dancing in the Moonlight ( It's Caught Me in Its Spotlight )" for various live performances, turning the upbeat, overlayed melody of the original into a slowly-paced acoustic tune.

Melodic imitation is a term that covers various genres of non-classical music which are primarily characterised by the dominance of a single strong melody line.

The women sing a Lucia song while entering the room, to the melody of the traditional Neapolitan song Santa Lucia ; the Italian lyrics describe the view from Santa Lucia in Naples, the various Scandinavian lyrics are fashioned for the occasion, describing the light with which Lucia overcomes the darkness.

China's Kunqu | Kunqu opera typically features roles such as a young male lead, a female lead, an old man and various comedic characters, all dressed in traditional costumes, and it is characterized by its " dynamic structure and melody ( kunqiang ).

In music, parody has been used for many different purposes and in various musical contexts: as a serious compositional technique, as an unsophisticated re-use of well known melody to present new words, and as an intentionally humorous, even mocking, reworking of existing musical material, sometimes for satirical effect.

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

Its rather odd effect sounds almost devoid of melody, as the main notes of the theme are scattered among various registers.