What is the most beautiful Melody you've ever heard?

[MechaBulletBill]

i'm a stupid nerd so the first things that come to mind are pretty much music from videogames. i don't really go for "beauty" in my non-soundtrack listening.

Jesus bleibet meine Freude (from End of Evangelion)

FFVII Main theme, FF Prelude theme - these are great orchestral versions

Actually, there's a pretty excellent series on BBC Radio 3 at the mo - Sound of Gaming - and while listening to the third episode, i cried three (3) times (i was having a bad day):
-Octopath Traveller main theme
- Chrono Trigger main theme (a game i haven't even really played)
- 'City of Tears' from Hollow Knight

i'm surprised in myself for not posting some Zelda above and before all else. there's this choral version of the Twilight Princess title theme - a game i don't even really like! - but i love this sound very very much

getting [slightly] away from soundtracks, i love the melodies from Anamanaguchi. it's real technical knowledge used for fun and euphoric music

[countertext]

Claude Debussy - Estampes L.100-1 Pagodes Chills every time.

same record, but i'll vote for Clair de lune. the most perfectly realized composition ever, sayeth i:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-SCt8XP5c

I’ve been meaning to mention that I’ve been playing this video as my classroom “entry music” for the last two weeks.

[luau]

Claude Debussy - Estampes L.100-1 Pagodes Chills every time.

same record, but i'll vote for Clair de lune. the most perfectly realized composition ever, sayeth i:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U-SCt8XP5c

While we're on the topic, the first bits of Satie's Gymnopédie No. 1 floor me.

[my bloody television]

I want to sit down when I’m home and add some more but the first tune that comes to mind is Avril 14 by Aphex Twin. Such a simple and beautiful melody.

[echobaseone]

Spiritualized/Spacemen 3 "All Of My Tears" https://youtu.be/kR_f8yHi3d0

[W.L.Weller]

Warm Canto, by Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron - piano
Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet
Ron Carter - cello
Joe Benjamin - contrabass
Charlie Persip - drums

https://youtu.be/SWafVcbpZag

This is a stunning confluence of Melody, Dolphy's thematic solo and the overall arrangement, to me.

[Hilarion Lefuneste]

Warm Canto, by Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron - piano
Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet
Ron Carter - cello
Joe Benjamin - contrabass
Charlie Persip - drums

https://youtu.be/SWafVcbpZag

This is a stunning confluence of Melody, Dolphy's thematic solo and the overall arrangement, to me.

I enjoyed that. Thanks!

[mizbiz]

Warm Canto, by Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron - piano
Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet
Ron Carter - cello
Joe Benjamin - contrabass
Charlie Persip - drums

https://youtu.be/SWafVcbpZag

This is a stunning confluence of Melody, Dolphy's thematic solo and the overall arrangement, to me.

I'm not sure why, but this is strangely reminiscent of the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack to me, which is fantastic by the way.

Specifically, the second song Joe Buck Rides Again:
https://youtu.be/1jjI0-qtFKU?t=152

[jakeisjake]

I've enjoyed so many of the pieces on here! It's a great idea for a thread.

This song is pure joy to me. I, sincerely, cry tears of joy every time I listen to it....including this time. They were under 25 when they recorded this...and Duane died at 26. Incredible.

*hippie wankering ahead* the jam starts at about 2minutes in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_-Nc_mMXyA

[jakeisjake]

Boy, I could do this all day, but here's something that most people won't be thinking of... anyway, here is the Mothers of Invention with The Orange County Lumber Truck. . It ends up a Frank Zappa guitar show, but the beginning parts have this melody that to me is very, very beautiful.

Even better is the way you would have heard it on the record, where there is a great song called "Oh No" that segues into it, which certainly is a dated sounding song but with some excellent work by Ray Collins singing some pretty brutal lines against hippy love utopian-ism.

I'm a big fan of the Mothers of Invention.

i might have picked Watermelon in Easter Hay...or maybe Black Napkins...Zappa certainly has some beautiful stuff

[windmill]

Today it is the first 40 seconds of this

Pachelbel - Canon

[jakeisjake]

I picked this version of Stella Blue more for Keith Godchaux's piano than Garcia's melodic leads. I don't think Keith got his due with DeadHeads...But he was a a great player...so simple and melodic in his own right.

https://youtu.be/oOyXKGqMRho?t=519

[jakeisjake]

one of my favorite hymns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzZ7jWTGmmY

[countertext]

Warm Canto, by Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron - piano
Eric Dolphy - bass clarinet
Ron Carter - cello
Joe Benjamin - contrabass
Charlie Persip - drums

https://youtu.be/SWafVcbpZag

This is a stunning confluence of Melody, Dolphy's thematic solo and the overall arrangement, to me.

Damn, diggin’ in the crates. That’s a great one. Dolphy and Booker Little also made some phenomenal melodic stuff (with Waldron!) on their collaborations.

[W.L.Weller]

And now for something completely different: John Fahey - Sligo River Blues

I'll see your Sligo River and raise you the Sunflower River:

https://youtu.be/Ep3YHeYP1AM

The "resolving" phrase that's first introduced about 1:35, that always gets me in the throat.