Sentence examples for melancholy theme from inspiring English sources

The jazz pianist Brad Mehldau joins in for the United States premiere of his own "Variations on a Melancholy Theme".

In the third movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11, "The Year 1905," the violas play a melancholy theme over the subdued pizzicati of the lower strings.

The work concludes with a hint of Friar Laurence's melancholy theme (in the play he arrives on the scene too late to prevent the two suicides).

The oldest and most gorgeously melancholy theme here is "12th Coping Song," a secular hymn inspired by Sept. 11, 2001, that closes the album.

"Out of Time," the third annual reinstallation of the rehoused Museum of Modern Art's capacious contemporary galleries, is a mixed bag of works from the past four decades, with a trenchant and, considering MOMA's history, somewhat melancholy theme.

Ms. Simmons started the concert's second half with a potent account of John Corigliano's "Étude Fantasy," in which a leaping left-hand exercise blooms into ruminative intensity and violence, culminating in a ravishingly melancholy theme.

Gradually the life stories of those in the carriages emerged, bringing with them melancholy themes of anxiety and loss.

The nine dall'Aquila works Mr. O'Dette played on Sunday included a handful of free-spirited Ricercars in which beautifully melancholy themes gave way to speedily virtuosic elaborations.

In five collections of songs, he set 43 poems by Hardy, often choosing melancholy themes about the transience of love and life.

Its title refers to a family of gracefully melancholy themes, and in a way this gentle, often dreamy score is a requiem for a dying style.

All we know is that in the 1600s and 1700s, medical books about melancholy and literature with melancholic themes were both finding an eager audience, presumably at least in part among people who suffered from melancholy themselves.