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Definition of Melismatic
1. Adjective. (music) of, relating to, or being a melisma; the style of singing several notes to one syllable of text – an attribute of some Islamic and Gregorian chants. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melismatic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melismatic
Literary usage of Melismatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"melismatic song, vocal music in which there is more than one note to a syllable
.... melismatic singing or playing, a style of vocal or Instrumental ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"In ' melismatic Plain-song,' of which the short passage quoted below is an ...
from the syllables in Syllabic, and from certain rules in melismatic melody. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"These melodies range from the syllabic up through various grades of the florid
into moderately melismatic chants. A rough idea of the melodic forms may be ..."
4. The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor by Moritz Hauptmann, Ferdinand Hiller (1892)
"Now, assuming this music to be in the main melismatic and not syllabic, as I
affirm Italian music to be, that does not contradict my statement, ..."
5. The Musical World (1855)
"... and were undiscernible and inaccessible to the factors of opera, and this
being was manifested in the sharply drawn melismatic and rhythmical forms, ..."
6. The Musiclover's Handbook: Containing (1) a Pronouncing Dictionary of by John Herbert Clifford (1911)
"melismatic. Florid vocalization. A melismatic song is one in which a number of
notes arc sung to one syllable, as in the florid passages in Handel's solos. ..."
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