Sentence examples for melody up from inspiring English sources
These colors were most striking in the quietest passages, as in the Berceuse, in which Mr. Pletnev played chords veiled in hazy pastels, or the Écho Rustique, in which one melody up high sounded amazingly delicate and distinct, like a music box.
Here he is discussing a rhyme from "Follies": "I had a similar moment when I paired 'soul-stirring' and 'bolstering.' The rhyme is not perfect, of course — the equal accents on 'soul' and 'stir' don't quite match the heavy accent on 'bol' and the lighter one on 'ster,' but I tried to mask that by leaping the melody up on each '-ing' to distract the ear".
Usually Mr. Longstreth sustained a sweetly androgynous croon as the music jittered all around him, but in "Police Story" — set to slow tom-tom thumps, steady guitar chords and a descant from the women's voices — he followed his winding, leaping melody up to a yelping crescendo of desperation.
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If I like a melodic idea that Ryan [Merchant] has come up with I'll take it and maybe apply some different chords to it and change the melody up a little bit, so it's very much a fifty-fifty collaboration where we just riff off of each other's ideas and develop a song in that way.
Menken spoke of the creative writing process, "we began throwing melodies up, doing songs and riffs and harmonies, and we waited for something to stick".
A good melody sets up expectation, then knocks it down.
Just as often, a distorted electric-guitar melody rears up from the quietude.
"Douce Dame Jolie" is first performed in Machaut's version, as a single unaccompanied line, and then in Mr. O'Regan's playful reconfiguration, with the melody sped up, slowed down, harmonized and otherwise toyed with.
It took three days to record: the melody stirred up by Keith Richards and Gram Parsons, the lyrics coined by Richards and Jagger, the chorus – so legend holds – written in the studio toilets.
The rhythmic percussion of countless cicadas is replaced by the sweet pulsations of a dozen violins, their melody winding up into the hot Italian night like clouds of perfumed incense.
