Example sentences for: melody

How can you use “melody” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The music consists of two basic elements: the raga, the melody of five or more notes, and the tala, the rhythm or tempo.

  • When played live, it has a haunting melody but taverna owners do have the irritating habit of playing it at high decibels through overloaded speakers.

  • At 9:22, after learning of the events at the World Trade Center, Melody Homer, the wife of co-pilot Leroy Homer, had an ACARS message sent to her husband in the cockpit asking if he was okay.

  • Those familiar with the Gorecki know that, on some full-size (if not very good) stereo systems, the first minute or so--bass violins growling quietly--comes off as a vague rumble, its melody barely audible.

  • In the first 12 measures of "The Meaning of the Blues," from Miles Ahead , the contents of a rising counterpoint behind Davis' melody keep mutating: French horn and trumpet give way to oboe, which slides back into trumpets, and the progression into the fourth measure, with nothing but the treble of muted trumpets in unison, feels like an airplane taking off.


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