melodiousness
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Glass, of course, set much text to music, sometimes with little stress and other times with robust melodiousness, but in all cases the words came first.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
I can see how a person charmed by, say, the easy melodiousness of Mississippi John Hurt might find something similar to cherish in Giorgos Batis, Stratos Pagioumtzis or other early rebetika performers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2014
Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2011
After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He never reconciled himself to the light bow introduced by Paganini, and all his work is distinguished by sweetness, singing quality and a flowing melodiousness.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews