Melody
['melədɪ] or ['mɛlədi]
Definition
(noun.) the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes.
Edited by Clio--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
(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.
(n.) The air or tune of a musical piece.
Checker: Natalia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pleasing succession of sounds (as distinguished from harmony or the concord of sounds), sweetness of sound.[2]. Song, descant, tune.
Edited by Davy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Music, song, tune, air, minstrelsy
ANT:Discord, dissonance
Edited by Angus
Definition
n. an air or tune: music: an agreeable succession of single musical sounds as distinguished from harmony or the concord of a succession of simultaneous sounds.—n. Melō′deon a small reed organ: an improved variety of the accordeon.—adj. Melod′ic—n.pl. Melod′ics the branch of music concerned with melody.—adj. Melō′dious full of melody: agreeable to the ear.—adv. Melō′diously.—n. Melō′diousness.—v.t. Mel′odise to make melodious: to reduce to the form of a melody.—v.i. to compose or sing melodies.—n. Mel′odist.
Editor: Maureen
Examples
- And the melody and rhythm will depend upon the words? Plato. The Republic.
- But now, though her voice was still sweet, I found in its melody an indescribable sadness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The magnificent melody of the Prayer in Rossini's Moses, sung in a sonorous bass voice, rose grandly through the suburban silence of the place. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These said that the choir would keep up their lacerating attempts at melody until they would bring down a storm some day that would sink the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What a fine ringing melody! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Afterwards she advanced to the fountain and dipped it thrice, singing all the time that strange melody. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You will see how he will draw the English power and melody out of its chords. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Next in order will follow melody and song. Plato. The Republic.
- Do we not shun the street version of a fine melody? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mr. Skimpole played the melody of one of Ada's favourite songs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Trills of melody were heard behind the scenes, and gurgling from a sweet pasteboard cottage covered with roses and trellis work. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- All such feeding and living may be rightly compared by us to melody and song composed in the panharmonic style, and in all the rhythMs. Exactly. Plato. The Republic.
- Sweet voices and rich melody filled the air, and so with mirth and music the masquerade went on. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Shall I play some of those little melodies of Mozart's which you used to like so much? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And here are a new set of Irish melodies. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She was softly singing to herself one of the melodies which she had been playing earlier in the evening. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Then, I said, if these and these only are to be used in our songs and melodies, we shall not want multiplicity of notes or a panharmonic scale? Plato. The Republic.
- She sang Irish melodies at him unceasingly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The lovely old melodies of Mozart, which poor Hartright was so fond of, she has never played since he left. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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