Most surprising are the lavish melodies that adorn the Garden of Earthly Delights.
The tunes that the songwriters have penned for the character not only bring to mind the anthems of the era, but they also zing with the sounds of contemporary musical theater, and Mendez's vocals -- both her rich lower tones and her clarion higher ones -- glide over the sometimes tricky melodies with surprising ease.
A number of 12"s have led to his debut solo LP, Folk, which taps into a classic German tradition of utopian grooves topped with a surprising playfulness and proggily noodling melodies.
Each of them manipulated melodies in logical yet surprising ways, and when they working alongside Hall his quirky but commanding phraseology suited them admirably.
The warm sound of the kayagŭm zither with 12 strings and 12 movable bridges is surprising to those accustomed to Chinese and Japanese zither melodies, which have a brighter timbre (sound quality).
According to some sources, that melody originated in 15th-century Germany, which is not surprising.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The shy Palestinian teenager raised her flute and dispatched the courtly melodies and cascading runs of an 18th-century concerto with surprising self-assurance.
Hardly surprising, then, that she should characterise her songwriting technique as "vomiting emotion on to a melody", with the results, on her debut, left relatively unadorned and simple.
Like Power's main gig, it finds euphoria and melody in unlikely sources – droning synths, shrieking samples, pummelling percussion – and proves a surprising amount of fun to listen to.
That sentiment--about the beauties of the unexpected, set to a soaring melody by David Yazbek--apretty pretty much in full to The Band's Visit itself: a surprising, tuneful, humorous and uplifting new musical.
