simple melody

collocation in English

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simple
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪm.pəl/us
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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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 ofsimpleandmelodyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Others are incapable of playing asimplemelodywith the right note values.
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Accompanied by the musician on a horse-head violin, one of the shepherd women sings to the mother camel, repeating asimplemelodywhile stroking the mother's belly.
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The song is in a verse-chorus form, employing asimplemelody.
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In the printed music, first thesimplemelodyplays alone.
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In accordance with asimplemelodyfrom a choir outside the house, the family undresses him and forces him into bed alongside the patient.
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The horn section is often arranged around the first horn, playing asimplemelodyor counter melody.
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Saxophone players may decorate asimplemelodyline with turns, grace notes, and short glissandi created with the mouth and the reed.
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The masked crimson tanager makes a high-pitched single note variously transcribed as "tchlink" or tink, and asimplemelodyoften sung at dawn.
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It begins with a clarinet choir playing thesimplemelody.
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About its structure, the song has a classic accompaniment, asimplemelodyand no refrain.
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Songs tend to open with asimplemelodyon harp or piano before plummeting into countless rabbit holes.
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Asimplemelodyis an abstract structure, but an orchestration is not, because it depends on the properties of particular instruments.
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The theme is usually a verysimplemelody, though few if any pibroch contain the theme in its simplest form.
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Many of those returning to romantic sentiment, narrative curve, orsimplemelodywish to entice audiences back to the concert hall.
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The tude is a study in crossing hands, playing asimplemelodywith alternating hands, and arpeggios.
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Its affecting, its genuine, has asimplemelodyand a warm arrangement.
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These songs typically have asimplemelodyand rhythm, and a straightforward structure of couplets and refrains.
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Bach ornamented thesimplemelody, in twelve phrases reflecting the twelve lines of the opening verse, with an elaborate "coloratura".
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A childrens song-likesimplemelodyhook in the first half is easy to sing a long, and especially the members rap in the latter half stands out.
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