Their national melodies, volklieder (songs of the people), have always a strain of sadness running through them.

Lord Jeffrey at the close of a once-famous review quaintly laments: "The tuneful quartos of Southey are already little better than lumber, and the rich melodies of Keats and Shelley, and the fantastical emphasis of Wordsworth, and the plebeian pathos of Crabbe, are melting fast from the field of our vision.

This flood of strange minstrels partly drowned the slang melodies and the monotonous strains of ordinary street musicians for a while.

It was her habit to take her breaking heart thus to the great masters, to interpret their thoughts in their music, welding their melodies to the needs of her own sorrow.

Then a publisher bought some little melodies that she had set to words.

Liszt and Chopin bound her in the enchantment of their wonderful melodies.

Irish Melodies, ii.

Consols; quote Moore's Almanac in illustration of Moore's Melodies; inquire whether those two great poets, Hogg and Bacon, were not of the same family; and when asked their opinion of Crabbe, give a decided preference to lobster.

" "Those ev'ning bells, those ev'ning bells, How many a tale their music tells!"Moore's Melodies, p. 263.

(In The Carter family album of old family melodies)

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SEE Miles, C. Austin. Melodies of morning.

SEE Ackley, B. D. Melodies of morning.

TIME-TESTED MELODIES THAT NEVER GROW OLD.

LA DOW, ELIZABETH. Heard melodies.

Indian music harmonized & original melodies written by Ann Church Collins.

The Kyrial; ordinary of the Mass with plainsong melodies.

PINE MOUNTAIN MERRY MAKERS FAVORITE MELODIES.

SEE FARNSWORTH, CHARLES, H. EARL "FATHER" HINES PIANOSTYLES; ten piano styles, melodies selected by Earl Hines, each followed by Hines' own style, with w. © 6Apr36; AA202161.

For Westcott's drunken voice could be heard singing snatches of negro melodies in a most melancholy tone.

For everywhere in these soft melodies of luscious beauty, even in the studied sketches of primitive innocence itself, there is an undercurrent of tender melancholy and pathos:

My longing, my feelings, are melodies seeking a song to cling to!

Then shall these melodies ascend high enough to accompany thy songs!*

Wanderin' on you see the nita huts of the Visayans, big handsome fellows they are and pretty refined wimmen, and hear their weird melodies as they are at work making their beautiful bamboo furniture, and weaving their handsome blankets, etc.