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

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
Enya

I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.
Enya

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.
Enya

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

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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