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melody meaning

EN[ˈmɛlədi]
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WMelody
  • A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line,
  • Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs,
  • The true goal of music—its proper enterprise—is melody.
melody
  • NounPLmelodiesPREmélo-
    1. tune; sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
      1. Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
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    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • Now, against the Beethoven rhythm and the antiphonal outcry (E), the 'celli intone a spacious and somber melody whose beginning is shown at F.
      • The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.
      • A later generation of bebop pianists would often be accused of one-handedness; their right hands flew along with melodies and improvisations, while their "weak" left hands just plonked chords.
    2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
      • The 1980s all-girl band, the Bangles, reunites for a comeback album with crisp Beatles-esque melodies.
      • Now, more than 300 years later, Walt Disney lias spun the idea into a whoop-dee-doo of comic characters, a spatterdash of Technicolor and a u-dee-dah of nostalgic melodies.

Meaning of melody for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "melody" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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    1. Nouns
      • Countable nouns
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