Definition of Melody

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Melody

A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

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.

The air or tune of a musical piece.

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Melody Quotations

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
Albert Camus

Music is the melody whose text is the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.
Britney Spears

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Johannes Brahms

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals

But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
Glenn Danzig

Melody Translations

melody in Afrikaans is wysie, wys
melody in Dutch is wijs, wijsje, deun, deuntje, melodie
melody in French is melodie
melody in German is Melodie
melody in Italian is melodia
melody in Portuguese is melodia
melody in Swedish is melodi

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