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...He played the drums and imagined himself one day becoming a big band arranger, “a chap who takes someone else’s melody and turns it to his purpose”....
...Rather than singsong melodies, we hear discordant shrill shrieks. Instead of verdant curling leaves, stencil outlines that look charred like the remains of a forest fire....
...It has never entered the standard repertory and remains the least performed of Puccini’s mature operas, even though the score contains some of his most memorable melodies....
...You could argue that the series is skewering the destructive selfishness of love . . . but the tide of plinky-plonk melodies and maudlin sentiments suggest we’re meant to take the anguished romance at face...
...It was an unlikely success story at which Tricky took extraordinary umbrage....
...This score, with its insistent, obsessive rhythmic motif and countervailing love melody, fits Nézet-Séguin’s dramatic sense, and the orchestral playing is as thrilling as the singing....
...Melody and switches in intensity save him, and us, from monotony....
...It gets formulaic at times — “The Alchemy” is misnamed — but elsewhere the blend of subtly layered textures, swelling melodies and her distinctive voice hits the mark....
...Then came another traditional song, “The Cuckoo”, with Worley playing a twangy Western melody on banjo while Kelsey jangled away on mandolin....
...tried John, but there weren’t enough syllables for the melody....
...He tells the story of five generations of one family and the outsiders drawn into its orbit....
...But a life — that was melody.” Just as our futures are driven by our pasts, so “rhythm comes from what came before.” No single note or experience exists in isolation....
...and melodies resonate with people worldwide.”...
...“The tunes, the ballads, the stories that were always carried with them.”...
...Kalkun wraps the album’s prettiest melody around “Toistmuudu”....
...Spiro, accompanied on stage by cellist Gemma Rosefield, who enriches the story with evocative snatches of melody, is a gripping storyteller. It’s a curious evening: not quite drama, not quite reading....
...I found, and I find that I like to listen to the melody over and over and over and over and over again....
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...As a child, “we were singing in harmony on the spot, picking up melodies really quickly. [Music was] just everywhere,” she tells me in the stark light of the next day....
...“Looking Glass”, with a sweet melody from a tinkling musical box, tells the story of Snow White from the perspective of the mirror, a swirl of poison apples and huntsmen....
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...“Damon [Albarn] is almost addicted to making up new melodies. But he doesn’t love finishing — he loves generating,” says Ford....
...An irresistible melody entwines around a sinewy set of rhythms....
...There, he had piano lessons and by 12 was composing his own melodies....
...The music is rooted in tonal harmony and melody but stoked by churning rhythms and ear-pricking detail....
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