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Melodize :: Melodize (v. i.) To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.

Barcarolle :: Barcarolle (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

Melody :: Melody (n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

Melody :: Melody (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..

Scena :: Scena (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria..

Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..

Monodical :: Monodical (a.) Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic..

Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..

Vocal :: Vocal (a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer..

Ground :: Ground (n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody..

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) Sound modulated; melody.

Air :: Air (n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize with the senses or the mind; to apprehend; as, to catch a melody..

Homophonous :: Homophonous (a.) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody..

Rosalia :: Rosalia (n.) A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence..

Melodize :: Melodize (v. t.) To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody..

Harmonize :: Harmonize (v. t.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody..

Swan :: Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon..

Nome :: Nome (n.) Any melody determined by inviolable rules.

Chant :: Chant (v. i.) To make melody with the voice; to sing.

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