Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or containing melody.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In music: Melodious; pertaining to a pleasing succession of sounds.
- Pertaining to melody as distinguished from harmony and rhythm.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
- adj. of or relating to melody
Examples
“-- Next to the recognition and comparison of the different melodic sections of a composition (in a word, the _melodic delineation_ of the whole), the most significant task in music analysis is the locating and classifying of the cadences.”
“One tone, one chord, a single movement, three, four notes in melodic succession, are in their musical apperception the substratum of such unutterable and intense musical emotion that it becomes practically impossible in these sound-areas to make music freely and completely in the manner of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, or Palestrina.”
“The album is often described as melodic and soulful, drawing on complex guitar riffs, solid drum beats, upright bass playing, gritty B-3 organ, and vintage electric pianos.”
“While I would never call his music "melodic" --he's not a tunesmith-- as he grew older it acquired a patina of lyricism that I really enjoy.”
“More generally, Regis' preference for chanson-like melodies in his Latin-texted works recalling the melodic styles of Du Fay and especially Binchois sets him apart from his contemporaries and may be related to his extended personal contact with these composers.”
“I can play a tune if I recall a melodic and harmonic impression of it – people request songs all the time that I forgot I knew, but there they are in my memory.”
Disneyland’s Ragtime Pianist: Michael Pollock | The Disney Blog
“ED GORDON, host: The unmistakable voice that once described as a melodic whisper has drifted into silence.”
“Prof. GARDNER: Stravinsky is the person early in this century who essentially undid music which we would call melodic or harmonic.”
“The song - about seeing the world anew after a period of darkness - is full of awe and self-discovery, the chorus 'broad melody line recalling the melodic clarity of Innervisions-era Stevie Wonder.”
“Instrumentalist, teacher, performer and award-winning folklorist, Pearlman is both a pioneer of the five-string banjo style known as melodic clawhammer and a master of finger-style guitar.”
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