Sentence examples for sad tune from inspiring English sources

But the Shepherd still pipes a sad tune: the sea is empty.

Even the tragic dramatist remains a clown, blowing a sad tune on a battered trombone.

The Shepherd agrees to change the sad tune he is playing on his pipe as soon as he sights a ship approaching.

In many ways, the background music for this newest dance is the same sad tune that has been playing since the M.T.A. was created in 1968 and the state took over the system.

Other highlights include a saucy song about the allure of "charismatic megafauna" ("I want a cute strong predator to fawn upon"), and a sad tune about the extinction of two species: the lemur and the passenger pigeon, the last of which, Martha, died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.

A sad tune is played on the soundtrack and without a word being spoken we are aware that the location is an old folks home, that the girl is bored stiff with her job and the old lady is on her way from the washroom to her lonely bedroom and on to an imminent grave.

He isn't given to analysis of why this bittersweet music so fascinates audiences and his fellow jazz musicians – even in a business of few words, Wheeler is legendarily shy – but around his 80th birthday last January he unwound enough to tell me: "What I like doing best is writing sad tunes, and then letting wonderful musicians destroy them.

As we grow older, we become accustomed to associating sad tunes--usually played in slow tempo in a minor key--with sadness, he says.

Try to compose the music at par with the meaning of the song,for e.g., don't use some really sad tunes for a song which tells about a very happy party!

But where the future of its innovation sector, its startups and entrepreneurs is concerned, it's not looking at Shangri-La so much as La La Land, singing a much sadder tune.

He wound the music box again, and the sad little tune played.