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Definition of Melodic line
1. Noun. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence. "She was humming an air from Beethoven"
Specialized synonyms: Fanfare, Flourish, Tucket, Glissando, Roulade, Leitmotif, Leitmotiv, Theme Song, Signature, Signature Tune, Theme Song, Idea, Melodic Theme, Musical Theme, Theme, Part, Voice
Generic synonyms: Music
Terms within: Musical Phrase, Phrase
Derivative terms: Melodious, Melodious, Melodize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodic Line
Literary usage of Melodic line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exercises in Elementary Counterpoint by Percy Goetschius (1910)
"The first consideration, for the beginner, is the correctness of each separate
melodic line, independently of the other, or others. ..."
2. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"5; Part IV begins a step higher than the Second Part does, and pursues the melodic
line of the latter quite closely for 5 measures; then digresses, ..."
3. Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry by Conrad Aiken (1919)
"... VII The melodic line: DH Lawrence IT has been said that all the arts are
constantly attempting, within their respective spheres, to attain to something ..."
4. Music Composition: A New Method of Harmony by Carl Edward Gardner (1918)
"... to a fixed unison but skillful voice leading must accompany such a progression.
Ex. 24. J^= ^ BACH. I But this is a passing dissonant. THE melodic line. ..."
5. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"And Bloch's melodic line, with its strange intervals, its occasional quarter ...
And like the melodic line, so, too, the phrases assigned to the trumpets hi ..."
6. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"13 of Part IV, the original melodic line is regained, then again abandoned for
i)^ measures, and then so guided as to close precisely as Part II did. ..."
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