Sentence examples for tender melody from inspiring English sources

The duet starts with a simple, tender melody and bittersweet harmonies.

Mr. Harrington and Hunk Dutt on viola lingered over the tender melody lines of Agustín Lara's "Se Me Hizo Fácil" and Margarita Lecuona's "Tabu".

Then, singing a sad, tender melody in C minor, Mimi opens her eyes and tells Rodolfo that she was only pretending to be asleep so they could be alone.

At the end of the second movement of Charles Ives's Symphony No. 4 a tender melody suddenly erupts into bawdy cacophony, like a marching band lurching through a carnival fun house.

The lonely theme of the Passacaglia movement in the Shostakovich concerto also evokes what Willa Cather heard in the tender melody that Dvorak concocted for his Largo: "the immeasurable yearning of all flat lands".

How are we to respond to this ethical nightmare, insensible as we are in the face of Strauss's coruscating music, which bursts with tender melody as well as ear-splitting, expressionist dissonance?

The tender melodies of the Fantaisie's Largo had both clarity and warmth, a public exposure of private melancholy.

So we have an instrument that can mould and structure from the bass and then melt your heart with the most beautiful and tender melodies.

This type of sustained relevance and appeal is rooted in tender melodies, vulnerable lyrics and a sense of authenticity and exposed soul that is so heavily laced through a Sarah McLachlan album that the audience has no choice but to feel their own emotions within the songs and embrace the music as a familiar extension of themselves.

Tchaikovsky's score, of course, is full of the tenderest melodies and most innocent, joyous sentiments.

In the opening andante, a tender, songful melody is spun over a rippling accompaniment.