Sentence examples for tuneful melody from inspiring English sources

Sullivan's musical setting has an ambling rhythmic gait and a sweetly tuneful melody; yet the music is somewhat out of kilter.

Concerned less with powerful emotions (Affekten) and more with clarity, the southerners avoided intricate counterpoint and convoluted harmonic progressions, preferring a restricted chord vocabulary and clear-cut symmetrical phrasing dominated by tuneful melody.

In many of the arias, tuneful melody and programmatic writing foreshadow later developments in Gluck's operatic style: in, for instance, the first examples of complex scene development in L'Île de Merlin and L'Ivrogne corrigé.

Whether it's true or not, it certainly helps to decode the lyrics, though Malkmus sings them with a shrug over wiry, wobbly, catchy guitars, with the murky but tuneful melody buried in the mix.

It highlights key features of their music: the sound imagination, the persistence of tuneful melody, and the close coordination between words and music.

For fans of smart guitars and tuneful melody-making, though, "Any Good Heaven" is a real find, one that -- as Crenshaw perhaps already knows -- could make a great pop-rock stocking stuffer.

Almond specializes in simple, tuneful melodies that draw on the rhythms of informal speech.

Mr. Andersson's and Mr. Ulvaeus's hook-driven, addictively tuneful melodies have been heard, in some form, in many an elevator, dentist's office and supermarket aisle.

If Mohsen Namjoo, the folk troubadour whose poetic lyrics and tuneful melodies appeal to older listeners, is, as he has been called, the Persian Bob Dylan, Mr. Najafi may be the Rage Against the Islamic Revolutionary Machine, whose harsh lyrics and hip-hop beats have captivated Iranian youth.

If there is a point to Eliot's catcycle, it is simply that "cats are much like you and me". As his verses (here sometimes garbled by amplification) personify all manner of cat, so do the tuneful melodies to which Mr. Lloyd Webber has set them.

One critic commented, "Its tuneful melodies show that the veteran composer had lost nothing of the qualities that made Véronique such a success.