Definition of Melodic line

1. Noun. A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence. "She was humming an air from Beethoven"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Melodic Line

mellowly
mellowness
mellownesses
mellows
mellowy
mells
melluco
melocervicoplasty
melocotoon
melodeon
melodeons
melodeum
melodia
melodias
melodic
melodic line (current term)
melodic minor scale
melodic minor scales
melodic phrase
melodic theme
melodica
melodically
melodicas
melodicism
melodics
melodidymus
melodies
melodiograph
melodion
melodions

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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