Sentence examples for tuneful piece from inspiring English sources

It's an immediately engaging and gloriously tuneful piece, employing the "arioso" form to keep a sense of pace in the drama, and taxing the soloists to the limit with some virtuoso coloratura arias.

-- The most appealing new musical to open on Broadway was "The Full Monty," a modest, tuneful piece about unemployment in Buffalo, in which scenery was secondary and only the guys took off their clothes.

And undercurrents of anxiety, wistfulness and melancholy run through the most tuneful pieces.

The Lalo and the Saint-Saens are signature works for any Gallic cellist, but Fournier brings more than authority to these tuneful pieces.

The bulk of Ms. Meyers's program consisted of works from the disc, an eclectic collection of mostly short, tuneful pieces: Charlie Chaplin's nostalgic "Smile," Astor Piazzolla's seductive "Milonga en Re" and "Introducción al Ángel," Michio Miyagi's wistful "Haru no Umi" ("Sea in Spring").

McCartney's score is a big, pleasant, tuneful, unremarkable piece of Orientalism.

His dominant theme then becomes "a tuneful, forward moving piece".

And, in a welcome tangent from the attention the 1610 Vespers has received, the concert Tenet presented on Saturday night at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church focused on another major Monteverdi work: "Selva Morale e Spirituale," a 1641 compendium of vibrantly tuneful liturgical vocal pieces.

The result of Gilbert and Sullivan's collaboration was a witty, tuneful and very "English" piece, in contrast to the bawdy burlesques and adaptations of French operettas that dominated the London musical stage at that time.

The music while tuneful is ultimately forgettable in the way Sondheimesque new scores are.

Jono el Grande is the nom de disque of Jon Andreas Hatun, a 29-year-old Norwegian whose 10-piece band plays tuneful, entertaining instrumentals such as Tango on the Crest of Reality and Rumba For a Slightly Excited Ape.