tunefulness

In fact they're like the local scene's answer to Lany, what with the duo configuration, the look, and the tunefulness of it all.

That want of easy tunefulness is a rather significant drawback for an entry into this song-infused genre, but parts of it -- the juxtaposition of the waltz and the furiant (a Czech folk dance) in the second movement and the lovely writing for low strings in the slow movement, among them -- lend the score a unique flavor.

That revolution "consisted of fully singing Yiddish words and with them overtaking a mood before it became clear what their meaning was." Moreover, at least in his youthful lyrics, his words "offer the inner individual tunefulness of the new poet.

Rather than showcasing a single melody, the movement meanders between lyrical fragments, creating a general feeling of tunefulness without highlighting any one melody.

Atop a backing bed of bloops and whirrs that suggested an eight-bit videogame composer having a nervous breakdown, the album's centerpiece maintained an effortless tunefulness while allowing the diva to deliver one of the great scorched-earth scorned-woman perfs of recent memory.

A single voice part in alto clef, it possesses a bouncy tunefulness more characteristic of Latin music from Italy.

Though Blink may be firmly in the past, their knowing pop tunefulness is alive and well in his solo work.

Thus Osundare's verse is patently histrionic because of the combined effects of the utilization of varied reiterative devices, sound imagery, musical accompaniment, folksongs/refrains, and the sheer tunefulness of the words themselves.

Ex-Rockapella star Sean Altman is "tuneful and sharply witty" (Los Angeles Times) and "relentlessly clever" (Chicago Tribune), with “catchy melodies, clever arrangements and lyrics that yield satiric gems” (Washington Post), combining "the tunefulness of the Beatles and the spot-on wit of Tom Lehrer” (Boston Globe) with a “silky tenor voice that produced chills” (New York Times).

He was playing fluted carols with tinkling runs and bell-like notes and soft lullaby, which had a freshness, a homeliness, a smiling tunefulness, an ineffable radiance and sweetness, such as I have never heard before or since.

Its tunefulness, simplicity, arpeggiated triadic character is clearly intended to mimic a music box, wind-up doll, or other toy that plays music.

And then, the penultimate section, which actually has an old fashioned lyrical tunefulness, seems like a passage lifted from Ecclesiastes and offered as a focus of meditation: The life of this world is wind Windblown we come, and windblown we go away.

Conceived for dancer Martha Graham, its exuberant tunefulness comes as something of a shock after Barber's solemnity.

The X Factor returns this week, giving would-be warblers of varying degrees of tunefulness a chance to show off on prime-time TV.

Here she brought out "Hips Don't Lie," one of the biggest-selling singles of the last decade, no doubt equally for its soul-shaking tunefulness as the hips in question.