melody
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The song's chorus is a masterclass in melody and, in Maskin's words, "smacks you in the face".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Scurries unveiled the melody ahead of a critical board of supervisors vote that could pave the way for Rucci’s data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The hazy love melody “Tremenda,” for example, underscores an intense yearning for connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
When seeking out new songs, Clark said it was "always the melody" that caught her ear, "because melody is international".
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Goodness, the crooked stairway is a musical scale of a most unfortunate melody.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
When I was 11, I would lock myself in my room and play the James Bond soundtracks with those lethal John Barry melodies and the larger-than-life voices of Shirley Bassey and Nancy Sinatra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"The lyrics come much easier than the melodies," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
You remember the rhythms and twinkly synths more than the melodies, and Madonna allows her own voice to be subsumed in the music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Djawadi also returned to write the melodies, with lyrics written by Parker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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