Definition of melody

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Melody (n.) A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression..

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Nome :: Nome (n.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules.
Harmonize :: Harmonize (v. t.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody..
Ariose :: Ariose (a.) Characterized by melody, as distinguished from harmony..
Melodize :: Melodize (v. t.) To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody..
Swan :: Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon..
Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..
Scena :: Scena (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria..
Melisma :: Melisma (n.) A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation..
Air :: Air (n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria..
Melody :: Melody (n.) The air or tune of a musical piece.
Melodize :: Melodize (v. i.) To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.
Croon :: Croon (n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody..
Har Monically :: Har monically (adv.) In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct..
Canto :: Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..
Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies..
Monodical :: Monodical (a.) Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic..
Modulation :: Modulation (n.) Sound modulated; melody.
Melodics :: Melodics (n.) The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody..
Planxty :: Planxty (n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character..
Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..
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