The audience was enthusiastic about the wistful melodies, the fanfare-like music accompanying attacks, and the cheerful hillbilly tunes.

During the interview, he sat down at the piano and played a meandering, wistful melody.

And in the Adagietto he shapes the wistful melody with suppleness and dignity, without a trace of indulgent sentimentality.

The first orchestral statement of this long-spun, wistful melody is taken by the violas and a discrete solo oboe.

The song is a longing for home and, with its wistful, calming melody and traditional ballad rhythms, is often used as a lullaby.

Once when I visited Nambu Robata, a wistful melody filled the air.

Finally the music is not radically simple but straightforwardly simple: a wistful melody, hymn-tune harmonies, the strains of a church harmonium.

These attractive, evocative miniatures were filled wistful melodies, striking sonorities and driving Minimalist rhythms.

A single voice, low and clear, wafted across the chamber, singing a slow, wistful melody.

Since those early 80's days, he's kept up a steady offering of wistful melodies for increasingly harder times.