It highlights key features of their music: the sound imagination, the persistence of tuneful melody, and the close coordination between words and music.
Sullivan's musical setting has an ambling rhythmic gait and a sweetly tuneful melody; yet the music is somewhat out of kilter.
Combining complex yet tuneful melodies ...
This is a composer prized by singers for his ability to write tuneful melodies, yet too much of his opera retreats into faceless recitative.
He favours female vocalists, slow tempos, lush arrangements of tuneful melodies in the jazz-soul idiom.
One critic commented, "Its tuneful melodies show that the veteran composer had lost nothing of the qualities that made Véronique such a success.
They like the older tuneful melodies on which the dance music is based, and the modest exercise is good for health.
While the tuneful melodies of Kabyle music, exemplified by Idir, Ait Menguellet, or Lounès Matoub, have a wide audience.
Mr. Andersson's and Mr. Ulvaeus's hook-driven, addictively tuneful melodies have been heard, in some form, in many an elevator, dentist's office and supermarket aisle.
The fun, coupled with the lovely pastel shades, the tuneful melodies, a sensible narrative, competent acting and elaborate stage settings, resulted in an extraordinarily pleasing entertainment.