The best songs were remarkably nimble, lingering in melancholy just long enough to establish a mood, then darting off with a joke or an unusual chord change.
Alas, when spring arrives, the minimalist sculptures will melt away, hopefully along with any lingering seasonal melancholy.
This ending is unfortunately overwritten and overexplained, but the ideas are provocative, and the lingering feeling interestingly melancholy.
What emerges is an impressionistic take that captures the thrill of the music, the enthusiasm of the fans and the lingering hint of melancholy as Murphy and crew create one last party.
But the lingering mood is melancholy.
Among the most-talked about movies at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, "Swiss Army Man" is a work of wild imagination and furious creativity, with a whimsical sense of invention and a lingering air of melancholy isolation.
But it blossoms into a reaffirmation of love that closes the program on a lingering note of sweet melancholy.
The Winterset fearlessly took some songs at glacial speed to linger within their melancholy — like "I Wish, I Wish," about a pregnant woman's suicidal regret, sung over an accordion drone while Ms. Conner plucked inside the piano.
Its lineup of musicians features, foremost, the tenor saxophonist Lester Young, whose airy, melancholy performances, often lingering suspensefully so far behind the beat that they seem to stop time, are joined by his longtime collaborators in the Count Basie band: the agile, bluesy trumpeter Harry (Sweets) Edison and the drummer Jo Jones.
There's also perhaps a little hidden lament in there, as the game comes to a satisfying and yet melancholy conclusion, a lingering feeling that perhaps the puzzlemaker himself, Akira Tago, might be sad to leave the imagined Britishness of the unique series.
