Gounod makes up in appealing melody what he lacks in dramatic skills.
Beck appears to be thinking about the timbre of his guitar all the time, whether playing the fluid, appealing melody to Nadia, the hard-rocking riffs of Led Boots, or one of his endlessly inventive solos.
In Huang Ruo's "Written on the Wind," the pipa player Min Xiao-Fen moved around her instrument virtuosically, bending strings to create graceful lines and executing brisk chordal slides while strumming vigorously, often while singing an involved, appealing melody with text in a made-up language.
His lavish and beautifully lyrical tenor needed appealing melodies.
In their time they were influential works with appealing melodies and inventive orchestral accompaniments.
Immediately appealing melodies, thoughts of love and Leslie Feist's gracious voice make "The Reminder" a pop album, but never a shallow one.
It may not be as chaotic as it sounds: the étude begins with an inviting, fanfarelike passage that works its way through the brasses and woodwinds before morphing into hazy chordal blocks from which appealing melodies often emerge.
And Kanye and Jigga are knocking heads on a WHOLE album Michael Jackson is bigger than ever, although dead Becoming Real makes some highly evolved dubstep How to Dress Well offers some dialled-down R&B ANR: Chili Peppers meets MGMT Put your hands up for the Knocks The Narcopleptic Dancers have a silly name but appealing melodies Caribou, remixed!
The closing work, "Shot in the Dark" (2012), had the soprano Tony Arnold negotiate a vocal line that had her whispering, chattering and occasionally singing simple, appealing melodies (the fantasy world of David Del Tredici's "Final Alice" came to mind), cloaked in an ensemble texture that oscillated between eeriness and high anxiety.
For variety, vocal works were interspersed with instrumental works, which tended to be the concert's bright moments: mostly played by Mr. Rodenkirchen, these flute pieces began with simple, appealing melodies, sometimes folkish, sometimes chantlike, and were then expanded upon in ornate, energetic improvisations.
The music is polished, the melodies softly appealing, the lyrics straightforward and written in the sober, simple voices of the characters.
