They are saying the same thing with the same melody, with the same B.P.M".
The newer song has the same melody as the original but different lyrics.
"It's the same melody throughout, so that you're already accustomed to it, and you're forced to listen to the lyrics".
His canon replaced the kontakion, a homiletic hymn of which all stanzas were sung to the same melody.
"If I ever hear the same melody in a sentence, I know I'm on the wrong track," he said.
They seem to sing in the round, the same melody from many different voices rolling through the night.
A heterophony (simultaneous variation of the same melody) between a solo voice, a chorus, and the rebab creates a music with a Middle Eastern flavour.
They say that schoolyard tune of "Nya nya nya nya nya!" is universal; the same melody and intonation the world over.
"It was the same melody that I'd sing when I was in the field," he said in an interview for the documentary "Muscle Shoals".
"The tension is the fact that you're singing the same text, the same melody, but you're not in the same world".
Mr. Kremer plays the solitary theme from the film "Don Quixote" in Variation 1; Mr. Saluzzi performs the same melody, with beautiful shadings, in Variations 2 and 3.
