Sentence examples for melody from high-quality English sources.

• But melody is far older than harmony.

• The hearing of a melody is a hearing with the melody. . . .

• According to Brentano as I listen to a melody I am aware that I am listening to the melody.

• The melody heard is a leitmotif that reoccurs throughout the film score to indicate love between the leading actors.

• Harmony was second only to melody as a focal element.

• Any melody, then, had underlying chords that could be deduced.

• In its central pages, one finds a contrasting melody redolent of hunting horns.

• The earliest known mention of a specific—rather than an improvised—melody dates from the 16th century.

Use melody in a sentence.

• In more elaborate forms of organum, a freely composed melody was sung note against note above the plainchant.

• A mode is the vocabulary of a melody; it specifies which notes can be used and indicates which have special importance.

• …with 5 double courses (cuatro) plays the melody with the singer, and the scraper (guiro) and drums (timbales) produce the rhythmic part.

• Beauty represented through the harmony and melody of music arises because of the emotion expressed by the harmony and melody.

• …in the finale of the Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (1884–85), an extended chaconne, or set of variations over an (eight-bar) repeated bass melody.

• Following a timpani roll, the violins adopt the main melody before the flute plays an extract of the melody to finish the opening section.

• Melody is back with a new series on Monday 16th March. 11 year old Angharad Rhodes stars as Melody, a little girl with a big imagination who is partially-sighted.

• Melody is back with a new series on Monday 16th March. 11 year old Angharad Rhodes stars as Melody, a little girl with a big imagination who is partially-sighted.

melody sentence examples

• “He wasn't a melody writer but he was very much instrumental in telling my mother where to go; he knew when the melody had to go up and when the emotion needed to rise.”

• Here a plainchant melody, or “principal voice” (vox principalis), is combined with another part, “organal voice” (vox organalis), singing the same melody in parallel motion a perfect fourth or fifth below (e.g., G or F below C).

• The 11th- and 12th-century organum added a simple second melody (duplum) to an existing plainchant melody (the vox principalis, or principal voice), which by the end of the 12th century was stretched so as to accommodate a melody.

• Pentatonic melody and longer, reverting strophes seem to represent Melanesian influence, while a specific melody style characterized by the use of several pentatonic modes in succession (“modulating pentatony”), very wide ambit, and extended strophic form can be attributed to European culture contact.