Nyman's piano music is beautiful, short melodic phrases just escaping sentiment that loop and fade as if played on some wind-up machine.
When he was invited by Blue Note Records to dig into the company archives for his 2003 remix album, "Shades of Blue," Madlib paid special homage to Horace Silver's "Song for My Father," from 1965, doubling back on certain phrases and elegant riffs without obscuring Silver's melodic line — or his sentiment.
Their gentle melodic twists and heartfelt sentiments remain.
No sentimental melodic counterweight.
Though it was not the best musical piece, the jury praised Ravel's work for its "melodic charm" and "sincerity of dramatic sentiment".
Our music used to be played by skilled orchestras; intelligible singers rendered tunes about dancing in the dark while orchids bloomed in the moonlight and nightingales sang in Berkeley Square and stars fell on Alabama -- silly sentiments, but carried along by intelligent melodic phraseology, and if the words were doggerel they were often wonderfully compelling.
English psych-pop classicists from the 1960s (well, two of them, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent) returning to old methods and sentiments: love, goodwill, acceptance and just a hint of angsty whingeing – melodic and, in the case of Blunstone's pipes, resilient as a breeze.
And Mr. Huang has developed an often arresting, distinctly Chinese-sounding melodic style, but one that has little of the rousing nature likely to stir patriotic sentiments.
Jenna Hally Rubenstein from MTV Buzzworthy shared a similar sentiment; despite being disappointed with Cyrus' limited appearance on the track, Rubenstein complimented that "cool element of melodic lushness" that her voice provided.
They produce flashes of genuine wit, occasional, sweetly bitter chords and energetic melodic phrases, but they can't seem to distinguish them from clichés or keep from spoiling them with dunderheaded sentiments.
