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Another word for melody

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Noun

  1. A pleasing succession of musical tones forming a usually brief aesthetic unit

    See also:

    sounds

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Another word for melody

Noun

  1. The quality of being melodious

    See also:

    harmony

    Antonyms:

  2. A melodious arrangement

    See also:

    tune

    song

    music

Synonym Study

  • Air , in strict application, refers to the principal, or leading, melody of a harmonized composition, but it is sometimes used as an equivalent of tune , which is the popular term for any easily remembered melody that identifies a song, dance, etc.
  • Melody refers to a rhythmic arrangement of tones in sequence expressing a musical idea
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Sentence Examples

  • The melody grew and passed from one instrument to another.

  • He coaxed one melody after another from the old piano, and then finally he folded the lid down.

  • Thomas Moore, who warmly eulogizes Emmet, with whom he was a student at Trinity College, records that one day when he was playing on the piano the melody "Let Erin remember," Emmet started up exclaiming passionately, "Oh, that I were at the head of 20,000 men marching to that air!"

  • The males appear to compete with each other in the brilliancy of their melody, in order to attract the females, which, according to the German naturalist Johann Matthaiis Bechstein always select the best singers for their mates.

  • But many hold that his letters and essays are finer contributions to pure literature, and that on these exquisite mixtures of wisdom, pathos, melody and humour his fame is likely to be ultimately based.

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