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Definition of Melody
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
2. Noun. The perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes.
Generic synonyms: Musical Perception
Derivative terms: Melodious, Melodious
Definition of Melody
1. n. A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
Definition of Melody
1. Proper noun. (English female given name). ¹
2. Noun. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Melody
1. an agreeable succession of musical sounds [n -DIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melody
Literary usage of Melody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"Cicero justly observes, that in one continued sound there is no melody : '' Numerus
... It will probably occur, that melody, if it depend on long and short ..."
2. Folio (1882)
"When we ask some one to sing a song —some particular song to which we liave taker
u fancy—it is not the melody we ask for, but the words. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"At any rate you can tell that a song or ode has three parts— the words, the
melody, and the rhythm;—that degree of knowledge I may presuppose? ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In musical philosophy and history the word " melody " must be used in a very
abstract sense, as that aspect of music which is concerned only with the pitch ..."
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