Sentence examples for old melody from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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".

Whitney Houston, a surprise guest, sang part of "The Greatest Love of All" with Mr. Anthony, letting him peal out her old melody while she toyed with sultry, jazzy asides.

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.

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.