Sentence examples for common melody from inspiring English sources
The pairs usually consisted of pieces in contrasting tempo and metre that often were unified by sharing a common melody.
Mr Ruscha is not reacting to anything tangible, rather he is picking up fragments of meaning from the ether, treating words like a jazz player riffing on a common melody, revealing the rich tonality of something we thought we knew.Edward Ruscha's work will be shown in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from June 7th-August 15th.
The violin is by far the most common secondary melody instrument in South India.
It has much in common — its melody and many lyrics — with "I Never Heard," a song written by Mr. Jackson and Paul Anka before Mr. Jackson's "Dangerous" album and shelved.
What he would have us hearken to most closely is not the song the verse-maker spins inside his own head, but the common world's melody, "the music of what happens", as he writes in the poem Song.
All Mr. Coleman needed for a common referent was a melody line, with its own interior rhythmic logic; the rest took care of itself after enough rehearsing.
The logic of heterophony derives from the simultaneity of lines that trace back to a common point: an extended melody, say, that can be transformed by numerous interpretations.
Until this time in the evolutions of musical instruments, melody was common only in singing.
The texts had verses and refrains that wandered from song to song; these and a common stock of folk-melody fragments allowed new songs to be improvised upon inspiration.
