Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment.
For instance, the canon Ma fin est mon commencement (My End Is My Beginning), by Guillaume de Machaut, the leading French composer of the 14th century, demands the simultaneous performance of a melody and its retrograde version (the notes are sung in reverse order).
When street celebrations resumed for Victory in Europe (VE) Day in March 1946, Winston ("Spree") Simon presented a landmark performance of several popular melodies on his "ping pong"—a single, tuned steel pan.
Caitlyn Millat of San Diego's NBC felt that Jay-Z "brought the house down" during his performances of the melodies.
The data of the subjects' ratings and the detection rate of melody variations in the performance test for familiarity were analyzed with SPSS 13.0 by calculating non-parametric tests (sign test).
In secular medieval music and in much folk and non-European music, instrumental accompaniments for singers consist of unison or octave duplications of the melody (sometimes with slight differences, creating heterophony, the simultaneous performance of variant versions of the same melody), of novel rhythmic features, or of a drone (sustained note or notes) played on wind or stringed instruments.
He offered an elegant performance of this enigmatic piece, in which fragments of melody are interwoven with rumbling figurations in the left hand.
The Guardians John Aizlewood commented that during its performance, the group "[created] a tidal wave of melody".
Combining several lines of melody at once is polyphony; varying a melody in different ways in simultaneous performance is heterophony; combining melody and chords is homophony.
After an intimate performance with dimmed lights for "The Roof (Back in Time)", Carey was joined on-stage by a Peruvian guitar player, who played the Latin-inspired guitar melodies during her performance of "My All".
