He used simple, impressive themes, melodious lines, and skillful melodic imitation.
The common blackbird's melodious, distinctive song is the theme of the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas; And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
"And the music is constructed the way Broadway scores used to be, gloriously melodious, lovely colors, with recurring themes in different tempos".
Trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Uri Caine share a lot – big techniques, innovative intelligence, multi-genre fluency and connections with John Zorn, for starters – but this melodious balance of old Protestant hymn themes, postbop swing and a little free improv is their first duo project together.
Another critic, Wilma Salisbury, presumably unaware of his original audition piece, wrote that Tetzlaff played Schoenberg's "dissonant themes as though they were melodious tunes by Tchaikovsky".
"It's not an exaggeration to say that Saturdays at 5pm will never be the same again without the warm, melodious sound of his voice, just after the Sports Report theme on BBC Radio 5 live". .
Orchestral writing is also melodious, with a solo woodwind or brass instrument often presenting an arresting, even jaunty theme over a simple rhythmic accompaniment.
It has not been melodious.
Her words are often not very melodious.
It's really melodious, nostalgic, moving, liturgical.
