The phrase "sentimental melody" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
You can use it to refer to a song or piece of music that evokes a feeling of nostalgia, sentimentality, or emotion. For example, "My mother used to listen to the same sentimental melody while doing the dishes every night."
He connected good-natured blues stomping, sentimental melody and classical allusions, all rendered in busy but authoritative virtuosity.
In 1929, putting to profit a visit to Paris, he filmed Romance sentimentale (Sentimental Melody), an essay in counterpoint of images and music.
While stars pop up, it is DMX who has the juiciest scene as in a cell he serenades Dre a sentimental melody that is so truly awful that he practically steals the film.
Aurally, you can hear the plinking of porcelain and the tinny shuffling of ice as central sounds in the composition, which Cairo builds into a sentimental melody as dark and evocative as the visuals.
Upon hearing the original on Madison Square Gardener, released by King Deluxe, I found that Pixelord had built his arpeggio over Mike's sentimental melody, one that sounds a lot less crazy and hectic than the remix and has this big fat snare/clap on the twos and fours.
How I miss those sentimental melodies.
At the same time the smooth horn tones, the sentimental melodies and the drumbeats replicating digital loops all gave it a posture of accommodation.
Four selections from "Cypresses," a 12-part cycle derived from love songs Dvorak wrote in his 20s, brought out his knack for creating sentimental melodies and the violinist Philip Setzer's knack for spinning them out beautifully.
But you can always rely on Carla Bley to put an edge on the most familiarly sentimental melodies – even transplanting Christmas carols from the fireside to the jazz club, as she does here, with electric bass sidekick Steve Swallow, and the Partyka Brass quintet featuring the fine German jazz trumpeter Axel Schlosser.
Robin Hilton summarised the changes as Stevens "[replacing] delicately plucked banjo lines, wispy vocals and sentimental melodies with glitchy soundscapes, hip-hop [sic] beats and heavily filtered vocals".
Video screens surrounded the "stage" where visuals by Yoshi Sodeoka, E*Rock and Dawn of Man swelled and changed colors to the gorgeous, sentimental melodies pouring forth from the strings.
