melodiousness

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I can see how a person charmed by, say, the easy melodiousness of Mississippi John Hurt might find something similar to cherish in Giorgos Batis, Stratos Pagioumtzis or other early rebetika performers.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2014

Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2011

Reviewing “City to City” in Rolling Stone, Ken Emerson said Mr. Rafferty “writes with the sweet melodiousness of Paul McCartney and sings with John Lennon’s weary huskiness.”

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2011

Coldplay sticks to conventionally structured songs with melodic piano and guitar arrangements; in its recent work, Radiohead has left standard song forms behind and nearly abandoned traditional pop melodiousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

His music occupies a middle ground between the melodiousness of the Italian composers of the early part of the century and the seriousness of later German opera.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)