signature tune
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Every brood contains a minimum of three or a maximum of four of cicada species — each species with its own signature tune.
From Salon • May 16, 2024
Langston Hughes’s poems were featured on posters in my local library, and everybody knew Duke Ellington because of his signature tune, “Take the A Train,” written by Billy Strayhorn.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2024
Before he signed off the stage, he sang his version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” a signature tune from their comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2023
Ms. Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter” spent only one week at No. 1 after its release in 1970, but it soon became the singer’s signature tune:
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022
In the Ring, every character has his or her own leitmotif, or signature tune.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
