The team collected 120,000 of these fragments Phra Charoen calls "pure melodies."

His carefully wrought, impossibly pure melodies carry poetic insights that form as gently as the billow of a curtain filled with summer wind.

Front and center is the composer's gift for spinning out pure and supple melodies that stretch over great distances of music.

In both these sets Rachmaninoff was less concerned with pure melody than with coloring.

We are alien to them, like dissonance in pure melody.

It was pure melody, soft and pensive as the cooing of a wood dove.

Her voice was pure melody, cold and perfect and remote as her white, oval face.

The colors are harmonics, and the lines are uncannily pure melodies.

The first two, in contrast, were pure unfettered melody, self- sustaining and gracefully balanced.

On other tunes he played pure melody, as if he were matching his soloing skills with composition, in the real time of improvisation.