melody

the melody of verse.

picked a melody out on the guitar.

She struck up a folk melody on the piano.

she began to pick out a rough melody on the guitar.

you've pitched the melody very high.

Melody managed to raise him to his feet.

guitar melodies with deep African rhythms.

the melody seduces the ear with warm string tones.

He played a delightful melody on his flute.

He played an Irish melody on the harp.

melody and harmony, two of the constituents of a musical composition;

he picked out an intricate melody on his guitar.

we have the melody and bass of a song composed by Strozzi.

the first half of the melody, modulating from E minor to G.

The saxophonist quoted a Duke Ellington melody in his solo.

Song: A long, Thrush-like, somewhat halting melody, often with a ventriloquial quality.

As soon as a melody is finished with, the composer writes another.

The melody harks back to one of his earlier symphonies.

he starts playing melody lines on the bass instead of laying the foundation down.

he always went for the most obvious melody he could get, no matter how naff it sounded.

The melody echoed around to far away.

I like that song because of its beautiful melody.

It was impossible not to respond to the familiar, soothing melody.

The melody within his voice rouses his people.

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

In fiction, the paragraph is less structured—it's the beat instead of the actual melody.

Now try to really imitate the melody and the rhythm, don't just repeat the words.

Sometimes it's a fragment of a melody that has a lyric on it already.

I wrote a song, I don't remember the exact melody. I'll make it up now.

And the melody from the first line...