A few convey hushed mystery, but too often, the pretty tunes turn into unctuous, echoey meditations.

Another pretty tune by the touring Ms. Woodhouse, and with the brainiest road in the country, Mass Ave (Harvar...

You used me, Seraph, Led me with your pretty tunes and your sermonizing-to be the butt of a joke!

As for whether liberated, enlightened Western audiences will ever be ready for Shaw's Eliza, with or without Lerner and Loewe's pretty tunes, one might say, with Shaw's Saint Joan, How long, O Lord?

And to think I made up a pretty tune about you, Menolly thought as she watched the two lizards hovering over the eggs.

But when at night the piper plays, I have not any fear, Because God's windows open wide The pretty tune to hear; And when each crowding spirit looks, From its star window-pane, A watching mother may behold Her little child again.

The Piano Concerto, with Li Jian as soloist, suggests the East as it begins but evolves into noisy, if exotic, schlock - Addinsell's "Warsaw Concerto" without the pretty tunes.

"He's singing a fairly pretty tune and then he gets stuck, it's like froze, arrested development", Zimmer said.

On Mr. Wailer's gorgeous ballad "Cry to Me," the engineers work a radical "dub" transformation, taking the music apart and turning a soulful, pretty tune into something with very sharp edges, revealing, as if in cross-section, how the individual instruments mesh their gears.

(Sinagra) CLEM SNIDE (Tonight) Though Clem Snide's nasal wiseacre frontman Eef Barzelay increasingly shows his soft side with pretty tunes influenced by love and fatherhood, this Brooklyn indie rocker hasn't lost his trademark snark.