most melodious

The chorus is just two notes sung over and over again, and not the two most melodious notes in the world.

John Aubrey is another, an eccentric antiquary whose “Brief Lives” mixes deliciously scandalous gossip about 16th-century courtiers with accounts of fairies and philosophers and one memorable ghost who, when addressed, disappeared “with a curious Perfume and a most melodious Twang.”

In Germany, the nightingale, that most melodious nocturnal wonder, was traded by the quart like a commodity.

Her husband, she wrote, was “more apt to embody ideas and sentiments in the radiance of brilliant imagery, and in the music of the most melodious verse that adorns our language, than to invent the machinery of a story.”

In 1670 Aubrey notes that “not far from Cirencester, there came an apparition, which when asked if it be a good spirit or bad, returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang. My friend Mr. William Lilly believes it was a fairy.”