The ensemble has morphed into an octet now simply known as Bajofondo, though tango is still its base line; among the album's best tracks is "Cristal," a future chill-out classic with a seductive melody assigned to bandoneón (Martin Ferres) and violins (Javier Casalla).
"Naïve and Sentimental Music," Adams' 45-minute epic symphony in all but name, begins with a long, seductive melody that never stops in the first movement.
It was near the start of Calixto Bieito's production of Rameau's "Platée" at the Stuttgart Opera, and the orchestra was playing the sharp, seductive melodies of this comic standard of the French Baroque.
Ms. Tower, who grew up in South America, often performed Messiaen, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, and their influence can be discerned in her music, which (apart from an early and brief brush with serialism) is flavored with seductive melodies and exuberant rhythms.
In this, it is much helped by Nigel Hess's score, which sets bawdy lyrics to seductive melodies and sends the audience out humming Nell's: "I can dance and I can sing / And I can do the t'other thing".
Geoffrey Himes of The Washington Post noted Saadiq for having "a rare gift for linking seductive melodies to slinky grooves" and stated, "Ray Ray is just a collection of disconnected songs... failing to establish a narrative.
Schaffner named "All Things Must Pass" and "Beware of Darkness" as the two "most eloquent" songs on All Things Must Pass, "musically as well as lyrically", with "mysterious, seductive melodies, over which faded strings and horns hover like Blue Jay Way fog".
Taylor praised the music: "Brayson's catchy score, which moves deftly through swing, blues, jazz and early rock'n'roll can rise to good old showbiz brassiness when needed". Henry Hitchings of the Evening Standard gave a mixed view of the music, "There are seductive melodies and a couple of genuinely catchy songs.
DeRogatis felt that its "solid" grooves and "super-seductive" melodies make "even the wildest, most genre-defying flights of fancy... instantly accessible and equally stimulating to brain and booty".
Mr. Bailey spun out the seductive opening melody with a rich tone, graciously complemented by Ms. Dinnerstein.
In the heart-stoppingly beautiful Andante lamentoso, a seductive modal melody rises above a tender piano accompaniment.
