These are instances of lyric poetry as beautiful as ever saw the light, and melodies as sweet as can be listened to.
There is as inseparable a connection between their melodies and their native language, as there is between our Highland melodies and our native Gaelic.
The Gael has a language and melodies already, superior to any that you can give him, and would you attempt to rob him of his birthright and inheritance, which is dear to him as his heart's blood?
It cannot happen, and I candidly assert for myself that, were the whole of the Breadalbane Estate mine, I would willingly part with it for the sake of being able to master the songs and the melodies of my Highland countrymen.
Sankey's melodies may do for a short time, but will never find a lasting lodgment in the Scottish heart like their own delicious melodies.
For certainly no man ever did more to keep up the native language and the melodies of the Lowland Scotch than he has done.
The power these melodies have over the Gael is really extraordinary.
I am certain that the Scotch must return to the melodiesin their native language.
Perhaps one-fourth of our songs are Elegies to the departed; and the melodies to which these are sung are as plaintive and melting as can be listened to.
I was, in a measure, prepared to enjoy them, as I found several of the melodies I used to sing, in the hymns.
Now, I am certain that were I to listen to the native melodies of my country in distant parts of the world, I would also weep.
Chappell's History of Music (London, 1874), where the melodies of the first and third hymns will be found harmonised by the late Sir George Macfarren.
Is it to be explained on the ground that all good melodies often use the Mese, and all good composers resort to it frequently, and if they leave it soon return again, but do not make the same use of any other note?
The most considerable are the melodies of three lyrical pieces or hymns, viz.
Footnote 2: It seems needless to set out these melodies here.
Pronomus was the first who devised flutes fitted for every sort of mode, and played melodies different in mode on the same flute.
And also, as usual, the melodies were the songs of Bonnie Scotland.
In addition to what seemed an almost inexhaustible stock of negro plantation melodies he had also a charming variety of Scotch ballads, which he sang with a voice of remarkable power and sweetness.
Don't they make you understand what someone meant when he said that virtuous melodies teach virtue?
He played woodland melodieson his oaten pipe early and late, but no one heeded him.
How marshal odours as melodies in a symphony, as colours on a canvas?
The most profound music gives only the timbre--melodies are for infantile people without imagination, who believe in patterns.
And his music was operatic, after all, grand opera saccharine with commonplace melodies gorgeously attired--nothing more.
One hundred and sixteen melodies of white people paired with same number of Negro-sung variants": p.
The Irish Brigade, accustomed to lie abroad, were quartered in some potato fields, where they sang Moore's melodies all night.
He learned to play chess well enough to make himself a formidable antagonist, and after Miss Atherton taught him the notes on the piano he found them on the flute, and began to play simple melodies from the music.
He knew no music but what the birds had taught him, and the simple little melodies he had heard his father hum.
We call two melodies like melodies when they present the same succession of pitch-ratios; the absolute pitch (or key) may be as different as can be.
We recognise in two different melodies the same rhythm no matter how different the melodies may be otherwise.
We can so select the melodies that not even two partial tones of the notes in each are common.
You often meet in Tartary these Toolholos, or wandering singers, who go about from tent to tent, celebrating in their melodies national events and personages.
What lilts and melodieswould vanish from the world!
Not yet have I seen Pan puffing his cheeks with melody on a streamside bank--by ill luck I squint short-sightedly--but I often hear melodies of such woodsy composition that surely they must issue from his pipe.
And the November wind, which piped madrigals in June and lazy melodies all the summer, has done no more than learn brisker braver tunes to befit the coming winter.
So she played soft melodies of trust and hope and patience, until her father came to find her, and linking his arm in hers walked back with her through the moonlight, not asking anything, only seeming to understand her mood.
III The bells of the little stone church were playing tender melodies as he shot briskly down the maple lined street at a break neck pace, and the sun was just hovering on the rim of the mountain.
Their hymns were usually set to the melodies of the Halle pietists.
By working up the old church melodies in the modern style, he brought the old hymns again into favour, and set hymns of contemporary poets to bright airs suited to modern standards of taste.
I feel the ideas burning in my head, and the melodies gushing from my heart.
The bird hears here every day so much music, and so many new melodies which the doctor plays on his piano, that its head has grown quite confused, and poor Paperl has forgotten its tunes.
The ear strains out sweet sounds, and St. Cecilia hears melodiesfrom the sky.
There is a visual desk where sunbeams make up their accounts; an aural desk where melodies conduct their negotiations; a memory desk where actions and motives are recorded; a logical desk where reasons and arguments are received and filed.
Passing through our life and world, he sees wondrous sights not beholden of our eyes, hears melodies too fine for our dulled hearing.
When more than two melodies are designed so as to combine in interchangeable positions, it becomes increasingly difficult to avoid chords and progressions of which some inversions are incorrect.
The artistic value of this device depends not only on the beauty and novelty of the second scheme of harmony obtained, but also on the change of melodic expression produced by transferring one of the melodies to another position in the scale.
The individual audibility of the melodies is a matter of which current criticism enormously overrates the importance.
Double Counterpoint is a combination of melodies so designed that either can be taken above or below the other.
He composed instrumental melodies besides many anthems, services, and other sacred pieces for choir and congregational singing.
This, with the simultaneous publication in America of the revival melodies of Philip P.
The metre of Bonar's hymn is unusual, and melodies to fit it are not numerous, but for a meditative service it is worth a tune of its own.
The favorite tune for this spiritual hymn, also by Watts, is old "Arlington," one of the most useful church melodies in the whole realm of English psalmody.
The ethnic melodies would fill a volume with their story.
Possibly its frequent association with "Holley," composed by George Hews, may influence a hearer's judgement of other melodies but there is something in that tune that makes it cling to the hymn as if by instinctive kinship.
Melodies of Valley dwellers and inhabitants of low countries.
The passionate yearning of the purest love, the pathos of unselfish grief, found a fit utterance in notes of an inimitable sweetness, and in melodies whose dainty phrases were ennobled and mellowed at once by delicate art and loftiest feeling.
True, these melodies are different in type from most melodies of Italian origin, but they are none the less melodies, and beautiful ones.
Beautiful melodies which seem to lend themselves to the peculiar requirements of vocal music crop up every now and then in all his works.
One circle might insist upon old English songs, such as the delightful melodies of Arne, Carey, Monroe.
Another characteristic is the sense of propriety with which Schumann connected hismelodies with the thought of the poems he employed.
Some of his melodiesare among the most beautiful ever conceived.
There is something about the melodies which seems to preserve them for all time; and the public is just as anxious to hear them to-day as it was twenty-five and fifty years ago.
Verdi's later operas contain such melodies and he is the model which the young composers of Italy will doubtless follow.
Frederic Francois Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies This Book was made by Philadelphia Theodore Presser Co.
The Story of the Boy who Made Beautiful Melodies As long as we live and keep in touch with the works of the great composers we shall love more and more the music of Frederic Francois Chopin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "melodies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
