This peaceful riverside enclave sparks to life during the weekly Thursday morning market, when you will hear vendors and shoppers trading the melodic sounds of Occitan (the original language of the region, spoken today by about 1.5 million people in southern France).

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Cornelius Loy gave the evening's most melodramatic, and ultimately heartening, performance, in which he coaxed both melodic and violent sounds out of his theremin, played over big, textured electronic tracks.

WSJ: The Theremin Comes Into Its Own | By Jim Fusilli

In the 1987 Max Roach Double Quartet, Roach sounds precise and melodic on his drums.

NPR: Max Roach Memorial Show

Instead, Trouble Books weave multiple melodic lines from countless instruments of different timbres in and out, adding and dropping sounds on airy whims.

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