melodies (noun)
1new wave — noun Usage: often capitalized N&W Date: 1960 1. a cinematic movement that is characterized by improvisation, abstraction, and subjective symbolism and that often makes use of experimental photographic techniques 2. a new movement in a particular… …
2fake book — noun a fake in the form of an imitation book; used to fill bookcases of people who wish to appear scholarly • Hypernyms: ↑fake, ↑sham, ↑postiche * * * noun Etymology: fake (III) (to improvise) + book …
3voice part — noun a part written for a singer • Hypernyms: ↑part, ↑voice • Hyponyms: ↑canto * * * noun : voice 1b(4) * * * Music. the melody or succession of tones for one of the voices or instruments in a harmonic or …
4ballad opera — noun : a theatrical entertainment consisting of folk melodies and popular airs with new texts interspersed with spoken dialogue * * * ˈballad opera 7 [ballad opera] noun a type of play, popular in England in the early 18th century, containing… …
5melodist — noun Date: 1789 1. singer 2. a composer of melodies …
6minstrel — noun Etymology: Middle English menestrel, from Anglo French menestral official, servant, minstrel, from Late Latin ministerialis imperial household officer, from Latin ministerium service, from minister servant more at minister Date: 14th century …
7quodlibet — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin quodlibetum, from Latin quodlibet, neuter of quilibet any whatever, from qui who, what + libet it pleases, from libēre to please more at who, love Date: 14th century 1. a philosophical or… …
8major scale — noun One of the diatonic scales; a group of notes or musical pitches in a particular pattern, used to make melodies. The pattern for a major scale is: tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone. :In the key of C Major, this produces a scale with… …
9Jew's harp — noun A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing… …
10beatboxing — noun The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop …
