It simply provides a haunting harmonic nudge to the mournful melody, and makes a telling point: his wife's very beauty made her a victim.

A mournful melody performed in a church (St Andrew's) in Buckland Monachorum.

It was a mournful melody, heart-piercing in its beauty and purity.

She played those old mournful melodies, the plucked-out ones, not the strumming tunes, not the dancey, frolicking ones.

In place of the mournful melodies and penitential nature of the normal funeral services, joyful paschal hymns are chanted.

And finally there was a more overtly mystical juxtaposition of airy chords and mournful melody.

The wind stuttered and keened through the ruins, creating snatches of a mournful melody that hinted at mysterious death and long-ago destruction.

Behind them, a few of the Indian prisoners had begun to sing a mournful melody, while others simply cried.

It was arranged in a half circle around a stage where bands played Thai country music, which combines wailing guitars with mournful melodies.

The first takes these connections with great seriousness as it alternates between mournful melody and dancing rhythms.