Synonyms:
tune, melody, air, strain, melodic_line, line, melodic_phrase
Meaning: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
Synonyms:
melody, tonal_pattern
Meaning: the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes
Usage examples
The Piper--a silhouette--a symbol--a melody.
It is characterized by brevity and wealth of melody.)
When she spoke a peculiar melody struck the hearer's ears.
Fuller and fuller grew the burst of melody as one glad strain fell upon another in joyful harmony:
The reading went on, not of course "for ever," like that harvest melody he spoke of, but for a considerable time.
The prevailing melody of its monophonic style proved suitable to furnish a subject for the most animated discussion.
So wild and weird was the melody; so passionately sweet the voice, it seemed impossible that the music should come from human lips.
These compositions were usually written for the harpsichord and perhaps three instruments of the viol order, the master himself playing the leading melody on the violin.
Two subjects, a melody in the tonic, another usually in the dominant, came to set forth the exposition of the opening movement, leading to a free development, with various episodes, and an assured return to the original statement.
The labial melody with which the Typee girls carry on an ordinary conversation, giving a musical prolongation to the final syllable of every sentence, and chirping out some of the words with a liquid, bird-like accent, was singularly pleasing.