All melody synonyms
mel·o·dy
M m noun melody
- chant — A chant is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again.
- inflection — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- theme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- lyric — (of poetry) having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially the character of a songlike outpouring of the poet's own thoughts and feelings, as distinguished from epic and dramatic poetry.
- unison — coincidence in pitch of two or more musical tones, voices, etc.
- consonance — agreement, harmony, or accord
- run — execution
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- aria — An aria is a song for one of the leading singers in an opera or choral work.
- song — Ailing [ahy-ling] /ˈaɪˈlɪŋ/ (Show IPA), Soong, Ai-ling.
- concord — Concord is a state of peaceful agreement.
- chime — When a bell or a clock chimes, it makes ringing sounds.
- air — Air is the mixture of gases which forms the Earth's atmosphere and which we breathe.
- lay — to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.
- measure — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- carillon — a set of bells usually hung in a tower and played either by keys and pedals or mechanically
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- descant — A descant is a tune which is played or sung above the main tune in a piece of music.
- tuneful — full of melody; melodious: tuneful compositions.
- musicality — of, relating to, or producing music: a musical instrument.
- diapason — either of two stops (open and stopped diapason) usually found throughout the compass of a pipe organ that give it its characteristic tone colour
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- assonance — the use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the same consonant with different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables, as in a line of verse. Examples are time and light or mystery and mastery
- tune — Thomas James ("Tommy") born 1939, U.S. dancer, choreographer, actor, singer, and director.
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- harmony — agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
- inflexion — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- euphony — The quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.
- melodiousness — The property of being melodious.
verb melody
- warble — to sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments: The canary warbled most of the day.