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Although there were occasional moments of sustained melody, Jacob's Ladder was for the most part a deliberately unmelodic complex of unexpected sounds, unsustained notes, a text rhythmically spoken rather than sung.

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The music lover in the good doctor reacts against unmelodic compositions, while his physician side wants to reduce the lyrics of the subconscious to tuneless abstractions.

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In A Mirror on Which to Dwell, the composer set six Elizabeth Bishop poems within an unmelodic structure.

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Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York Sighting the fabled bowerbird It had a most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel.

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It is not a punk-rock smash, but an unmelodic magnetic number called VisiCalc, the bestselling microcomputer program for business uses.

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