hummable
Americanadjective
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The title track is both complex and hummable, and it features contrasting solos from Mr. Rogers, who is pointed and gruff, and Mr. Finlayson, who is lithe and bright.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Leonard Bernstein’s score represented a significant and “difficult” departure from standard, hummable melodic show tunes of the Rodgers and Hammerstein variety.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
Washington artists used mind-bending jazz experimentations to question deep-seated social and economic systems, and needled billionaire tech villains through hummable punk bops.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
Sheeran is a baby-faced singer-songwriter whose hummable ballads like “Perfect” and “Photograph” have become streaming-era pop standards.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Its opening theme, albeit not instantly hummable, consists of twelve notes: it uses all twelve notes of the Western scale without repeating any of them.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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