Sentence examples for old melodies from inspiring English sources

She continues to develop her music, adapting old melodies and using Spanish poetry as lyrics.

All but one are new arrangements of old melodies; the project was supervised by T Bone Burnett.

Traditional and anonymous songs -- and new topical songs recycling old melodies -- were the musical staples, and they addressed history, legends and public issues as much as private lives.

No other composer of the 19th century -- indeed, no other composer since the 16th century -- relied the way Berlioz did on the ancient cantus firmus technique, the construction of counterpoints against old melodies, usually stretched out in long notes.

Sometimes, as in "Scarborough Fair," they simplified the music, using a cello to replace what had been vocal counterpoint; sometimes Mr. Simon sang improvisational variants of his old melodies.

But when an arranger builds over really strong old melodies, the original article can still blaze so brightly underneath the layers of disguise that you start to wonder why it wasn't allowed to show more of itself.

Meanwhile no old melody or arrangement is inviolable.

There are lots of sounds, so no one has to listen to repeats of the same old melody.

The old melody became something rich and strange and old, retaining its purity through the electronic haze of the modern world.

For the Shakespeare lyric "Full Fathom Five," he backed an old melody with tolling church-bell low notes and spooky modern harmony.

He later turned to ancient Chinese art, searching for the seeds of abstraction and the inspiration for a new series of works he called "old melody with a new voice".