Melody
linear succession of musical tones in the foreground of a work of music
- For the Waris Hussein film, see Melody (1971 film).
A melody also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color.
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- The continuity and diagetic function of almost all vocal melody draw us along the linear thread of the song's syntagmatic structure, producing a 'point of perspective' from which the otherwise disparate parts of the musical texture can be placed within a coherent 'image'.
- Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music, p. 264. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
- You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!
- Suman Pokhrel, Between Rainbows and Melody
