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There's no melody that can express this great, passionate love.
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Jenkins evinces no eye for visual melody and tricks up the images by leaching out most of the color, hinting at meaning but achieving merely a greeting-card cuteness.
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Even if I create the most solemn melody, it is no better than a letter written by a reed on crumbling sand.
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This isn't the first time data has been "sonified, " but these processes that might initially seem to have no relation to music, rhythm and melody, actually highlight the patterns in natural phenomena.
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For instance, one of his best-loved piano works, the E-flat Intermezzo, Opus 117, no.1, begins and ends with an especially beautiful melody.
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This was no Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw riffing with glissandos, over two octaves of pure melody.
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His ideas about melody, harmony and rhythm seemed to fall to earth out of nowhere, fitting into no particular school of thought.
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