Sentence examples for tuneful from inspiring English sources

Sadly, it wasn't very tuneful.

He chose to speak in Nashville, a once-sleepy (if tuneful) city that has seen its foreign-born population roughly double in a decade.

This tragicomic snapshot of the Greenwich Village folk-music scene in the 1960s is a sort of spiritual sequel to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", their amusing and tuneful take on Homer's "The Odyssey".

Carlotta Grisi and Lucius Petipa were the stars of the Paris Opera ballet then, and now it's just a chance to enjoy unfamiliar, endlessly tuneful light music.The music of Joseph Kosma, like that of many composers who work for the cinema, has been largely ignored until recently.

"Lili Marlene" became widely popular on both sides in the second world war.It was the work of Norbert Schultze, perhaps Germany's most successful composer of tuneful music in the 1930s and 1940s.

He welcomed Jewish performers to Bayreuth, and enjoyed the tuneful, popular music of Verdi and Donizetti.

But more for the sake of the takings of in-house bars than from any fear that alcohol-fuelled violence will erupt among the middle-class men.The worst result of excess boozing I have ever witnessed (and this was at London's less salubrious international cricket venue, the Oval) was a naked man treating those around him to a spirited and tuneful rendition of "Suspicious Minds".

Inside the hall a tuneful Christian rock group and an address from Jerry Falwell junior warmed up the crowd.

Even more popular than Auber as a purveyor of light operatic comedy was Jacques Offenbach, a German émigré to Paris who supplied France's Second Empire (1852 70) and the early years of the Third Republic (1870 1940) with a long series of very tuneful, witty, and satiric works of deliberate frivolity.

Above all, the characters, from the cheerful huntsmen and village girls to the simple, valiant hero and the prince who rules over them, were all with the tuneful, sensational music a mirror in which every German could find his reflection.

In the more tuneful finales, or final movements, the sense of a rondo "ritornello" is most distinct (as in Handel's Opus 6, No. 11).