Who's Baireuth?" asked Francis. "Oh, a man I know. His other name was Wagner, and he wrote some tunes."
Francis nodded. "Oh, but I've heard of him," he said. "They're rather long tunes, aren't they? At least I found them so when I went to the opera the other night. Go on with your plans, Mike. What do you mean to do after that?"
"Go on to Munich and hear the same tunes over, again.英文原著 · 《Michael》
Comfort has come to me here in the dreary streets of the city, Comfort--how do you think?--with a barrel-organ to bring it. Moping along the streets, and cursing my day as I wandered, All of a sudden my ear met the sound of an English psalm-tune, Comfort me it did, till indeed I was very near crying. Ah, there is some great truth, partial, very likely, but needful, Lodged, I am strangely sure, in the tones of the English psalm-tune. Comfort it was at least; and I must take without question Comfort, however it come, in the dreary streets of the city.英文原著 · 《Amours de Voyage》
Joe, he never heard of the tune. Don't you know it? Goes like this: . No, that ain't it. That's "Gray Eagle." Funny, I can't think how that tune starts. Well, no matter. They played an arrangement that had "Old Zip Coon" in it.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Not all either. There's one band in front of Hofmeyer's playing "Oh, Happy Day! That Fixed my Choce." That's funny: to play a hymn-tune in front of a beer-saloon. Hofmeyer seems to think it's all right. He's inviting them in to have something. "Took the hint?" I don't understand . Oh, is that so? I didn't know there were other words to that tune.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
Now, Mr. Fearing was one that played upon this base. He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than the notes of other music are. Though, indeed, some say that the base is the ground of music. And, for my part, I care not at all for that profession that begins not with heaviness of mind. The first string that the musician usually touches is the base when he intends to put all in tune. God also plays upon this string first when He sets the soul in tune for Himself. Only, here was the imperfection of Mr.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
"And you want to turn composer, my good friend, and set my old tales to some popular tune? But there have been too many composers, if that be the word, in the field before. The Highlands WERE indeed a rich mine; but they have, I think, been fairly wrought out, as a good tune is grinded into vulgarity when it descends to the hurdy-gurdy and the barrel-organ."英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》