original melody

collocation in English

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original
adjective
uk
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/us
/əˈrɪdʒ.ən.əl/
existing since the beginning, or being the earliest form ...
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melody
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈmel.ə.di/us
/ˈmel.ə.di/
a tune, often forming part of a larger piece ...
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(Definition oforiginalandmelodyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Adémar also explores tonal space in a more precipitous and bolder fashion than does theoriginalmelody.
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As this second melody dies away, theoriginalmelodyis heard once again with the tutti reprise.
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Theoriginalmelodythen reappears in a darker mode.
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When it was sung to anoriginalmelody, it was called an "idiomelon".
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The latter may involve a contrasting section or a completion of theoriginalmelody.
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The theme has been arranged and re-arranged many times over the years, but theoriginalmelodystill remains the same.
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It was the first mobile phone where a user could input anoriginalmelody, rather than the preset songs.
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Theoriginalmelodywas replaced with a twelve bar blues and the lyrics of most of the verses were replaced with nursery rhymes.
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Ballads were characterized by paraphrasing of theoriginalmelodywhich always seemed tasteful, appropriate and respectful to the vision of the songwriter.
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This melody is more imposing and serious than its precursors, until it wonderfully leads back into theoriginalmelody.
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What littleoriginalmelodywas actually written and recorded was built around a fast-paced tempo representing running music.
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A faster section featuring the piano follows, building gradually until near the end, at which point the piece deceptively pulls back to theoriginalmelody, now given to the flute.
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This rendition slightly alters theoriginalmelody.
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However, due to the oral tradition of the time, theoriginalmelodyof the song was not notated and over the course of time was forgotten.
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Nooriginalmelodyhas survived.
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As in "opera buffa", the singers were often masters of the stage and the music, decorating the vocal lines so floridly that audiences could no longer recognise theoriginalmelody.
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In other words, did oral transmission in the singing schools remain through four centuries so much the same that, for similarly performed liturgies everywhere, the original melodies were purely preserved?
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His work often parodies popular song forms, though he usually creates original melodies when doing so.
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