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Definition of Melisma
1. n. A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.
Definition of Melisma
1. Noun. (music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melisma
1. melodic embellishment [n -MAS or -MATA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melisma
Literary usage of Melisma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The syllable la of inviolata was the bearer of a long melisma; to this melisma
towards the close of the tenth century in France the following text was ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... as melisma(t-) + -¡c.] In music: (a) Melodious. (Í/) Ornamented; adorned.—melismatic
singing or playing, a style of vocal or Instrumental performance In ..."
3. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"A medley; a composition founded upon several popular airs. melisma (Gr.) (me-ßi-mä.)
A vocal grace or embellishment; several notes sung to one syllable. ..."
4. The Musical World (1871)
"I was, however, always more partial to a broad, far-expanded melody, than to the
shott, and contrapuntally treated melisma of chamber instrumental music, ..."
5. Studies in Musical Graces by Ernest Fowles (1907)
"melisma. (From the Greek.) A. A musical grace. Hence the Germans call an ornate
song ein ... ie melisma. ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"pneuma or melisma. There are in all fifteen | Gloria patri as well, in the early
shape iu which different texts set to tliis scheme of music ; the it ..."
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