He was a classic sonero, able to handle the most difficult melodies and lines, effortlessly".
The more difficult the melody, the simpler you want the bassline to be.
She even enters the thickets of difficult lyric and melody that comprise Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters".
He could, and did, play anything brilliantly (the standards include such obscurities as "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie"), but in his compositions, he posed some very difficult problems of melody, rhythm, and harmony, which he himself worked out for most of his life and which other musicians to this day find fruitful and unresolved.
On first listen it's a little difficult but lopsided melodies emerge, the best of which call to mind the blues as played by PiL.
Therefore, unless one is trained in sight singing, it is difficult to recognize the melody of a musical piece just by looking at its sheet.
With a range of one and a half octaves, the melody is notoriously difficult to sing.
"The acceptance of beautiful melody is sometimes difficult for a downtown New York musician," Byrne had told me earlier in the day.
There are times when coming up with that right sound or melody is as difficult as writing 120 minutes of music.
Sondheim's other works include melodies that are difficult to sing, but Night Music is awash in lilting waltzes, first introduced during the overture by a splendid quintet -- Mary Stewart Evans, Stephanie Jabre, Jay Aubrey Jones, Richard Lisenby and Mary Thorne.
