They also used well-known melodies set to their own texts.
She prefers to write all-new material, though she also does parodies of well-known melodies.
The well-known melody from the round "'O Kerstnacht!
Khansahib inherited a vast repertoire of well-known and obscure melodies from his forebears.
He sang schlager songs which were based on well-known classical melodies.
Buckley, in his Elgar biography of 1905, wrote, "The theme is a counterpoint on some well-known melody which is never heard".
It was only with William Chappell's publication in his National English Airs of c.1855-1859 that the well-known melody was first printed.
It is based on around a dozen well-known melodies from the rock band Queen.
The well-known melody was composed by David Zahavi.
Around countless camp-fires they had recreated the past, mixing fact and fiction in the same way that jazz musicians improvise on a well-known melody.