melodies

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He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The trio were known for blending the UK garage sound popular at the time with R&B melodies, scoring hits such as Why, Scandalous and One Night Stand.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

“Michael” is bizarre because everything left unsaid still lingers between the lines, sandwiched between the formidable melodies of his greatest hits, like toxic ooze leaking out from the middle of two slices of Wonderbread.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The way that we pieced the song together was that I did a couple passes on it melody-wise, then he wrote to my melodies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

The fiddler came from this or that plantation, the banjo man from another state: Every day the musicians in the dormitories shared the melodies from their regions and the body of music grew.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead