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

Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2011

Reviewing “City to City” in Rolling Stone, Ken Emerson said Mr. Rafferty “writes with the sweet melodiousness of Paul McCartney and sings with John Lennon’s weary huskiness.”

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2011

Journalists who heard him warble Margaritaville on election eve can testify that his baritone is notable more for enthusiasm than for melodiousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instantly the room was populous with sounds of melodiousness, and mournfulness, and wonderfulness; the room swarmed with the unintelligible but delicious sounds.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman