Sentence examples for melody playing from inspiring English sources

"I believe in giving due respect to the melody, playing it as true as possible," he said.

Mario Davidovsky's four "Biblical Songs" recreate in atonal terms a similarly languid, chantlike melody playing against energetic, fragmentary meters and rhythms.

A sleepy, melancholic lead guitar picks out a simple, resigned melody, playing a perfect counterpoint to a deflated Malkmus singing softly about failure.

In Fiddler, he reclaims the Broadway idiom's ethnicity; the violinist's yearning melody, playing as the villagers trudge away from Anatevka, is a seed of the American musical.

Donna, Che in Ciel is more substantial, and we can hear Handel's confidence and originality in arias such as Sorge Pure dall'Orrido Averno, which has unison strings overlapping with and anticipating the vocal melody, playing with our expectations.

"Lady Luck" – his next single, Woon says – has something of the barbershop quartet about it, all tish-tock rhythms and a little burble of a keyboard melody playing off against Woon's rich vocal.

Among tunesmiths his is a melody played in a penny arcade.

Tiny fragments of melody played over and over create a hypnotic effect.

An orchestral version of "Unchained Melody" played on the CD player.

Composed for Rostropovich, the intimate sonata opens with a meditative cello melody, played searchingly by Mr. Capuçon.

European and American folk fiddlers often bowed open strings to drone beneath the melody played on a neighbouring string.