Their sophomore effort Tales from the Thousand Lakes was released in 1994 with "plenty of fascinating melodies and song structures that drew heavily from the traditional folk music of their native country".
Creation's update of Brazilian Tropicália is sonically fascinating, but the vocal melody that weaves through the chaotic, amphetamine bossa nova lifts it on to a different plane.
It a great melody with a fascinating, complex arrangement.
I used to think that the music in that game was fascinating and very entertaining because you could effortlessly remember the melody and even the atmospheric arrangement.
For me the most fascinating element of the practice has to do with the approach to writing melody.
This is a time-honored idea in a particular corner of the avant-garde where conventional elements like melody, rhythm, harmonic movement and phrase structure are regarded as less fascinating than timbre, texture, duration, volume and intensity, particularly when these qualities change slowly, if at all.
It will be fascinating to hear Jonathan Tunick's orchestration played by the New York Philharmonic, and to hear the melody and words sung by a great operatic bass-baritone, Mr. Terfel.
The fascinating and well-researched program encompassed Coptic and Armenian chant, Sephardic songs, Sufi melodies and Thomas Tallis's "Lamentations of Jeremiah" on the historic destruction of Jerusalem.
It is fascinating to see how many characteristics familiar from later works, including orchestral ostinatos and folklike melodies, are already prominent here.
And the series ends with another crucial but rarely heard early work, "Another Look at Harmony," Part 4 (1975), a fascinating hourlong piece for organ and large chorus in which Mr. Glass mulled over gradually shifting relationships among harmony, melody and rhythm.
