melodyn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛlədi/, U.S.

/ˈmɛlədi/

Forms: Middle English melady, Middle English meledye, Middle English mellodye, Middle English melode, Middle English melodieus (plural), Middle English meloudie, Middle English molodi (transmission error), Middle English molodye (transmission error), Middle English 1600s melodi, Middle English–1500s meledy, Middle English–1500s mellodie, Middle English–1500s melodye, Middle English–1700s melodie, Middle English– melody, 1500s–1700s mellody; Scottish pre-1700 mellodie, pre-1700 mellody, pre-1700 1700s– melody, pre-1700 1800s– melodie.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melodie.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French melodie song, music, tune (12th cent.; French mélodie ) < post-classical Latin melodia song, singing (Vulgate), tune, music (4th–5th cent.), plainchant (from 6th cent. in British sources), melody, tunefulness, beautiful arrangement of musical sounds (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek μελῳδία singing, chanting, choral song, music < μελῳδός musical, singing songs ( < μέλος song (see melos n.) + ᾠδ- : see ode n.) + -ία -ia suffix¹.For the association with pleasantness in sense 1a, compare glosses on post-classical Latin melodia such as dulcis cantus , suze sang (in L. Diefenbach, Gloss. Latino-Germanicum (1857)) arising from association of the first element with classical Latin mel honey (see mell n.²). Compare Italian melodia (late 13th cent.), Spanish melodía (c1260), Portuguese melodia (16th cent.), Middle Dutch melodie, meloudie, melodi (Dutch melodie), Middle High German mēlodī, melodīe (13th cent.; early modern German melodei, German Melodie), Swedish melodi, Swedish (regional) melodeja.

I. Senses relating to music.

a. Sweet music or song (sometimes used with reference to the singing of birds); †beauty of musical sounds, tunefulness, melodiousness (obsolete). In later use often simply: music (frequently with overtones of sense 3a).In early use chiefly applied to music in performance, as opposed to written music.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > beauty of sound or melody

melodyc1300

harmonyc1384

sweetness1398

melodiousness1530

tunableness1561

well-sounding1594

air1597

chime1608

suavity1614

melos1740

songfulness1850

tunefulness1882

tuniness1905

c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 386 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 230 (MED) Þis foules..gonne singue ech-one Aȝenest heom with gret melodie.

c1300 St. Christopher (Laud) 18 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 271 (MED) Þe kyng louede muche Melodie of fieþle and of songue.

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 3097 Thus with alle blisse and melodye Hath Palamon ywedded Emelye.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7431 Gleuand he sang be-for þe king, And gert him wit his melodi Fal on-slepe.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 102 (MED) Þe nyghtgale to songe & melody all nyght is gyfyn.

a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 17 She herde a merueylous melodye of swetnes which passed alle hertes to descriue.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 175 It was grete melody to here it.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ci They shall..se dayly their holy & blessed conuersacion, & here their songe & melody.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 12 The birds chaunt melodie on euerie bush.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxviii. 75 Dauid..was..the author of adding vnto poetrie melodie in publique prayer, melodie both vocall and instrumentall for the raysing vp of mens harts.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Melody, sweete sounding, or sweete musick.

1611 A. Stafford Niobe 113 Thou deseruest a Quire of ancient Bardi to sing thy praises; who, with their musickes melody, might expresse thy soules harmonie.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 528 The melodie of Birds.

1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 Lend me your Song, ye Nightingales! oh pour The mazy-running Soul of Melody Into my varied Verse!

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 94 Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. xi. 285 All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear.

1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 42 We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows.

1916 E. H. Porter Just David iii. 29 The music was all about them now, filling the air with runs and trills and rollicking bits of melody.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 28/2 The enduring Schubert portrait remained that of liederfürst, prince of melody and song.

b. to make melody: to make music, to sing. Now chiefly literary.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)]

dreamOE

to make melodyc1330

to make minstrelsyc1330

note1340

practise?a1425

gest1508

melody1596

music1649

melodize1662

perform1724

spiel1870

c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 631 Þe king..makeden murthe & meloudie.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 9 Smale foweles maken melodye.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 121 Make myrthe and melody.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxix. f. lxxxxix/1 They were ryght ioyous..and made grete chere and melody.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eph. v. B Synginge and makynge melody vnto the Lorde in youre hertes.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cviij To tel you..what melody was made in Tavernes..it were a long woorke.

1611 Bible (King James) Ephes. v. 19 Speaking to your selues, in Psalmes, and Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your heart to the Lord.

1778 J. W. Fletcher Lett. 15 July in Posthumous Pieces (1793) 209 They said they would sing to their father, as well as the birds; and followed me, attempting to make such melody as you know is commonly made in these parts.

1829 F. D. Hemans Evening Prayer in Forest Sanctuary (ed. 2) 274 Fresh within your breasts th' untroubled springs Of Hope make melody.

1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 367 If we make melody in our hearts, and if our souls are tempered to harmony, then is the Divinity enlarged within us.

1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 111 The embowered river-reaches with their multitude of voices making melody.

2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. f6 With the sweet showers of April soon to arrive, piercing the drought of March as birds make melody.

c. Lyrical quality in writing, achieving a pleasing effect likened to that of melodious music; beauty of sound in the arrangement of words, esp. in poetic composition.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > euphonism

melody1589

roll1730

modulation1759

euphonism1774

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xv. 107 In very truth I thinke them but vaine & superstitious obseruations nothing at all furthering the pleasant melody of our English meeter.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 224 [The] exquisite beauties of which blank verse is susceptible..are majesty, melody, and variety.

1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 143 His books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level.

1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 58 In the verse of neither is there that instant and sensible melody which comes only of a secret and sovereign harmony of the whole nature.

1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 21 While these worthies relish your grace notes and flourishes, my worthless ears will hang on the tale's mere melody.

†2. A musical performance, esp. of a song. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun]

melodyc1300

musical1579

performance?1611

c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 510 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 16 Al folk onourede al-so þe croiz..With offringues and with song and with oþur melodies al-so.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) 1 Paralip. xv. 22 Chononyas..was beforne to the prophecie and to the melodye to be sungyn before.

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 116 Þe mynstrallez begynnez to do þaire melodys agayn.

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 10548 As she lay in þis syknesse..Syngyng she made a melody.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 244/1 Melody played in a mornynge, reueil.

a. A series of single notes arranged in a musically expressive or distinctive sequence; a tune; (Music) the tune around which a polyphonic composition is constructed, or which constitutes the predominant part of a piece, to which other parts serve as accompaniment. Cf. air n.¹ 11, 10.Now the principal sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > a melody

notec1300

warblec1374

moteta1382

tunea1387

measurea1393

modulationa1398

prolation?a1425

gammec1425

proportion?a1505

laya1529

stroke1540

diapason?1553

strain1579

cantus1590

stripe1590

diapase1591

air1597

pawson1606

spirit1608

melody1609

aria1742

refrain1795

toon1901

sounds1955

klangfarbenmelodie1959

1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 31 The Melodie of the Verses in the answeres off the first Tone.

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xi. §2. 332 A compound Song is where Two or more Voices go together,..so that the Melody each of them makes, is a distinct and different simple Song.

1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression 67 By a Diversity of Harmonies, the Chain and Progression of Melodies is also finely supported.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Conductus Though in every other kind of discant some known melody was chosen which governed the air originating from it, in the Conductus the discant and the harmony were both of them new, and produced together.

1792 G. Thomson Let. to Burns Sept. I have..employed many leisure hours in selecting and collating the most favourite of our national melodies for publication.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organists Certain priests or clerks..generally four of them..sung in parts, i.e. they organized the melody.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 24 My guide kept in advance of me singing a Tyrolese melody.

1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 761/2 Arrangements [of metrical psalms] with the melody, as usual, in the Tenor..published at Leyden in 1633.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. vii. 210 They sang one negro melody after another, while the mulatto sat rocking himself.

1932 Music & Lett. 13 189 The alto and bass have the melody, the others the organum.

1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 355 They advanced into a glade filled with the gentle melodies of song-birds.

1991 New Yorker 14 Oct. 100/3 Three are played by a muted wah-wah trumpet, a tenor saxophone, and a wah-wah trombone, over a melody carried by reeds and trumpets.

b. A poem suitable for singing, esp. to a particular tune. Also: a lyrical poem or other passage of writing. Now rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung > poem to be sung to particular melody

melody1807

1807 T. Moore (title) Irish melodies.

1814 Ld. Byron (title) Hebrew melodies.

1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. Introd. p. iv The touching and inimitable Melodies of my countryman, Thomas Moore.

1876 J. R. Lowell Milton in Among my Bks. 2nd Series 284 There are..some exquisite melodies (like the ‘Sabrina Fair’) among his earlier poems.

c. A pleasing visual effect or combination of colours, suggestive in some way of music. Now rare. in melody: (of colours) merging into one another.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > harmony of colours

harmoge1601

union1662

repose1695

value1706

keeping1715

melody1830

colour harmony1853

chord1856

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. v. 215 The rising sun was beginning to silver the leaves..a visible melody..like the song of early birds.

1843 J. Ruskin Let. in Artists & Amateurs Mag. 1 283 [Turner's pictures] are studied melodies of exquisite colour.

1856 J. M'Cosh & G. Dickie Typical Forms ii. iii. 155 Colours are said to be in Melody when two contiguous tints..run insensibly into each other.

4. As a mass noun: that aspect of musical composition which consists in the arrangement of single notes in expressive succession; the branch of musical theory or practice concerned with this. Often contrasted with harmony.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun]

melody1728

line1923

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > melody or ground

plainsonga1450

ground1592

melody1728

cantilena1740

canto1782

canto fermo1789

air1813

cantus firmus1847

cantus1887

musica plana1940

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Melody is the Effect only of one single Part, Voice, or Instrument.

1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression (advt.) Melody may be defined the Means or Method of ranging single musical Sounds in a regular Progression, either ascending or descending, according to the established Principles.

1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 155 Thus far Melody and Harmony..had been cultivated for the use of the church.

1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 99 (note) The first of these styles of melody they term monodic, the second polyodic. But this polyodic style of composition, after all, is nothing more than a compounding of harmony with melody.

1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 250 Melody is the general term which is vaguely used to denote successions of single notes which are musically effective.

1931 C. Engel Discords Mingled 147 Jazz is rag-time, plus ‘blues’, plus orchestral polyphony; it is the combination, in the popular music current, of melody, rhythm, harmony, and counterpoint.

1959 Listener 8 Jan. 80/1 The Heart's Assurance was the first work in which Tippett's long-breathed melody and sprung rhythm flowered into what one might call creative ornamentation.

1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic viii. 205 The consensus is that harmolodics frees melody from the constraints of harmony and allows full chromatic improvisation.

†II. Extended uses.

5. A group (of harpists). Obsolete. rare.One of many alleged group terms found in late Middle English glossarial sources, but not otherwise substantiated.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > company of harpers

melodya1450

a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 604 (MED) A Melodi of harpers.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. Fvj^v A melody of Harpers.

Compounds

General attributive.

ΚΠ

1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 286/1 Melody Organ or Harmonium, a harmonium so constructed that the upper note of the chords played is louder than the rest of the sounds.

1879 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 The melody-attachment..has the effect of making the melody-note, or air, when in the highest part, predominate.

1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz i. 27 In his melody section, Whiteman had a complement of violins, 'cellos, saxophones, trumpets and trombones.

1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) 64 The slide trombone was at first considered no less a rhythm than a melody instrument in jazz.

1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xxix. 324 Charlie and Mick Taylor had worked out patterns that emphasized the stark melody line.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	melody
释义	melodyn. Brit. /ˈmɛlədi/, U.S. /ˈmɛlədi/ Forms: Middle English melady, Middle English meledye, Middle English mellodye, Middle English melode, Middle English melodieus (plural), Middle English meloudie, Middle English molodi (transmission error), Middle English molodye (transmission error), Middle English 1600s melodi, Middle English–1500s meledy, Middle English–1500s mellodie, Middle English–1500s melodye, Middle English–1700s melodie, Middle English– melody, 1500s–1700s mellody; Scottish pre-1700 mellodie, pre-1700 mellody, pre-1700 1700s– melody, pre-1700 1800s– melodie. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melodie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French melodie song, music, tune (12th cent.; French mélodie ) < post-classical Latin melodia song, singing (Vulgate), tune, music (4th–5th cent.), plainchant (from 6th cent. in British sources), melody, tunefulness, beautiful arrangement of musical sounds (from 8th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek μελῳδία singing, chanting, choral song, music < μελῳδός musical, singing songs ( < μέλος song (see melos n.) + ᾠδ- : see ode n.) + -ία -ia suffix¹.For the association with pleasantness in sense 1a, compare glosses on post-classical Latin melodia such as dulcis cantus , suze sang (in L. Diefenbach, Gloss. Latino-Germanicum (1857)) arising from association of the first element with classical Latin mel honey (see mell n.²). Compare Italian melodia (late 13th cent.), Spanish melodía (c1260), Portuguese melodia (16th cent.), Middle Dutch melodie, meloudie, melodi (Dutch melodie), Middle High German mēlodī, melodīe (13th cent.; early modern German melodei, German Melodie), Swedish melodi, Swedish (regional) melodeja. I. Senses relating to music. 1. a. Sweet music or song (sometimes used with reference to the singing of birds); †beauty of musical sounds, tunefulness, melodiousness (obsolete). In later use often simply: music (frequently with overtones of sense 3a).In early use chiefly applied to music in performance, as opposed to written music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > beauty of sound or melody melodyc1300 harmonyc1384 sweetness1398 melodiousness1530 tunableness1561 well-sounding1594 air1597 chime1608 suavity1614 melos1740 songfulness1850 tunefulness1882 tuniness1905 c1300 St. Brendan (Laud) 386 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 230 (MED) Þis foules..gonne singue ech-one Aȝenest heom with gret melodie. c1300 St. Christopher (Laud) 18 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 271 (MED) Þe kyng louede muche Melodie of fieþle and of songue. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 3097 Thus with alle blisse and melodye Hath Palamon ywedded Emelye. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 7431 Gleuand he sang be-for þe king, And gert him wit his melodi Fal on-slepe. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 102 (MED) Þe nyghtgale to songe & melody all nyght is gyfyn. a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 17 She herde a merueylous melodye of swetnes which passed alle hertes to descriue. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lii. 175 It was grete melody to here it. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ci They shall..se dayly their holy & blessed conuersacion, & here their songe & melody. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 12 The birds chaunt melodie on euerie bush. View more context for this quotation 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxxviii. 75 Dauid..was..the author of adding vnto poetrie melodie in publique prayer, melodie both vocall and instrumentall for the raysing vp of mens harts. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Melody, sweete sounding, or sweete musick. 1611 A. Stafford Niobe 113 Thou deseruest a Quire of ancient Bardi to sing thy praises; who, with their musickes melody, might expresse thy soules harmonie. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 528 The melodie of Birds. View more context for this quotation 1728 J. Thomson Spring 29 Lend me your Song, ye Nightingales! oh pour The mazy-running Soul of Melody Into my varied Verse! 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 94 Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. xi. 285 All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear. 1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 42 We are like the musician on the lake, whose melody is sweeter than he knows. 1916 E. H. Porter Just David iii. 29 The music was all about them now, filling the air with runs and trills and rollicking bits of melody. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 28/2 The enduring Schubert portrait remained that of liederfürst, prince of melody and song. b. to make melody: to make music, to sing. Now chiefly literary. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] dreamOE to make melodyc1330 to make minstrelsyc1330 note1340 practise?a1425 gest1508 melody1596 music1649 melodize1662 perform1724 spiel1870 c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 631 Þe king..makeden murthe & meloudie. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 9 Smale foweles maken melodye. a1450 York Plays (1885) 121 Make myrthe and melody. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. lxxxix. f. lxxxxix/1 They were ryght ioyous..and made grete chere and melody. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eph. v. B Synginge and makynge melody vnto the Lorde in youre hertes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cviij To tel you..what melody was made in Tavernes..it were a long woorke. 1611 Bible (King James) Ephes. v. 19 Speaking to your selues, in Psalmes, and Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your heart to the Lord. View more context for this quotation 1778 J. W. Fletcher Lett. 15 July in Posthumous Pieces (1793) 209 They said they would sing to their father, as well as the birds; and followed me, attempting to make such melody as you know is commonly made in these parts. 1829 F. D. Hemans Evening Prayer in Forest Sanctuary (ed. 2) 274 Fresh within your breasts th' untroubled springs Of Hope make melody. 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 367 If we make melody in our hearts, and if our souls are tempered to harmony, then is the Divinity enlarged within us. 1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 111 The embowered river-reaches with their multitude of voices making melody. 2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. f6 With the sweet showers of April soon to arrive, piercing the drought of March as birds make melody. c. Lyrical quality in writing, achieving a pleasing effect likened to that of melodious music; beauty of sound in the arrangement of words, esp. in poetic composition. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] > euphonism melody1589 roll1730 modulation1759 euphonism1774 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xv. 107 In very truth I thinke them but vaine & superstitious obseruations nothing at all furthering the pleasant melody of our English meeter. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 224 [The] exquisite beauties of which blank verse is susceptible..are majesty, melody, and variety. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 143 His books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level. 1871 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. July 58 In the verse of neither is there that instant and sensible melody which comes only of a secret and sovereign harmony of the whole nature. 1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 21 While these worthies relish your grace notes and flourishes, my worthless ears will hang on the tale's mere melody. †2. A musical performance, esp. of a song. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] melodyc1300 musical1579 performance?1611 c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) 510 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 16 Al folk onourede al-so þe croiz..With offringues and with song and with oþur melodies al-so. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 370) 1 Paralip. xv. 22 Chononyas..was beforne to the prophecie and to the melodye to be sungyn before. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 116 Þe mynstrallez begynnez to do þaire melodys agayn. 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 10548 As she lay in þis syknesse..Syngyng she made a melody. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 244/1 Melody played in a mornynge, reueil. 3. a. A series of single notes arranged in a musically expressive or distinctive sequence; a tune; (Music) the tune around which a polyphonic composition is constructed, or which constitutes the predominant part of a piece, to which other parts serve as accompaniment. Cf. air n.¹ 11, 10.Now the principal sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] > a melody notec1300 warblec1374 moteta1382 tunea1387 measurea1393 modulationa1398 prolation?a1425 gammec1425 proportion?a1505 laya1529 stroke1540 diapason?1553 strain1579 cantus1590 stripe1590 diapase1591 air1597 pawson1606 spirit1608 melody1609 aria1742 refrain1795 toon1901 sounds1955 klangfarbenmelodie1959 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 31 The Melodie of the Verses in the answeres off the first Tone. 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xi. §2. 332 A compound Song is where Two or more Voices go together,..so that the Melody each of them makes, is a distinct and different simple Song. 1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression 67 By a Diversity of Harmonies, the Chain and Progression of Melodies is also finely supported. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Conductus Though in every other kind of discant some known melody was chosen which governed the air originating from it, in the Conductus the discant and the harmony were both of them new, and produced together. 1792 G. Thomson Let. to Burns Sept. I have..employed many leisure hours in selecting and collating the most favourite of our national melodies for publication. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Organists Certain priests or clerks..generally four of them..sung in parts, i.e. they organized the melody. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 24 My guide kept in advance of me singing a Tyrolese melody. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 761/2 Arrangements [of metrical psalms] with the melody, as usual, in the Tenor..published at Leyden in 1633. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia ii. vii. 210 They sang one negro melody after another, while the mulatto sat rocking himself. 1932 Music & Lett. 13 189 The alto and bass have the melody, the others the organum. 1981 S. Rushdie Midnight's Children 355 They advanced into a glade filled with the gentle melodies of song-birds. 1991 New Yorker 14 Oct. 100/3 Three are played by a muted wah-wah trumpet, a tenor saxophone, and a wah-wah trombone, over a melody carried by reeds and trumpets. b. A poem suitable for singing, esp. to a particular tune. Also: a lyrical poem or other passage of writing. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung > poem to be sung to particular melody melody1807 1807 T. Moore (title) Irish melodies. 1814 Ld. Byron (title) Hebrew melodies. 1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. Introd. p. iv The touching and inimitable Melodies of my countryman, Thomas Moore. 1876 J. R. Lowell Milton in Among my Bks. 2nd Series 284 There are..some exquisite melodies (like the ‘Sabrina Fair’) among his earlier poems. c. A pleasing visual effect or combination of colours, suggestive in some way of music. Now rare. in melody: (of colours) merging into one another. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > harmony of colours harmoge1601 union1662 repose1695 value1706 keeping1715 melody1830 colour harmony1853 chord1856 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. v. 215 The rising sun was beginning to silver the leaves..a visible melody..like the song of early birds. 1843 J. Ruskin Let. in Artists & Amateurs Mag. 1 283 [Turner's pictures] are studied melodies of exquisite colour. 1856 J. M'Cosh & G. Dickie Typical Forms ii. iii. 155 Colours are said to be in Melody when two contiguous tints..run insensibly into each other. 4. As a mass noun: that aspect of musical composition which consists in the arrangement of single notes in expressive succession; the branch of musical theory or practice concerned with this. Often contrasted with harmony. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [noun] melody1728 line1923 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > melody or ground plainsonga1450 ground1592 melody1728 cantilena1740 canto1782 canto fermo1789 air1813 cantus firmus1847 cantus1887 musica plana1940 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Melody is the Effect only of one single Part, Voice, or Instrument. 1752 C. Avison Ess. Musical Expression (advt.) Melody may be defined the Means or Method of ranging single musical Sounds in a regular Progression, either ascending or descending, according to the established Principles. 1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 155 Thus far Melody and Harmony..had been cultivated for the use of the church. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 99 (note) The first of these styles of melody they term monodic, the second polyodic. But this polyodic style of composition, after all, is nothing more than a compounding of harmony with melody. 1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 250 Melody is the general term which is vaguely used to denote successions of single notes which are musically effective. 1931 C. Engel Discords Mingled 147 Jazz is rag-time, plus ‘blues’, plus orchestral polyphony; it is the combination, in the popular music current, of melody, rhythm, harmony, and counterpoint. 1959 Listener 8 Jan. 80/1 The Heart's Assurance was the first work in which Tippett's long-breathed melody and sprung rhythm flowered into what one might call creative ornamentation. 1989 C. S. Murray Crosstown Traffic viii. 205 The consensus is that harmolodics frees melody from the constraints of harmony and allows full chromatic improvisation. †II. Extended uses. 5. A group (of harpists). Obsolete. rare.One of many alleged group terms found in late Middle English glossarial sources, but not otherwise substantiated. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > company of harpers melodya1450 a1450 Terms Assoc. in PMLA (1936) 51 604 (MED) A Melodi of harpers. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. Fvj^v A melody of Harpers. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 286/1 Melody Organ or Harmonium, a harmonium so constructed that the upper note of the chords played is louder than the rest of the sounds. 1879 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 The melody-attachment..has the effect of making the melody-note, or air, when in the highest part, predominate. 1934 S. R. Nelson All about Jazz i. 27 In his melody section, Whiteman had a complement of violins, 'cellos, saxophones, trumpets and trombones. 1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) 64 The slide trombone was at first considered no less a rhythm than a melody instrument in jazz. 1985 S. Booth True Adventures Rolling Stones xxix. 324 Charlie and Mick Taylor had worked out patterns that emphasized the stark melody line. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). melodyv. Brit. /ˈmɛlədi/, U.S. /ˈmɛlədi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: melody n. Etymology: < melody n. Compare post-classical Latin melodiare (late 11th cent.), Old French, Middle French melodier (13th cent.). 1. intransitive. To make music or melody; to sing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] dreamOE to make melodyc1330 to make minstrelsyc1330 note1340 practise?a1425 gest1508 melody1596 music1649 melodize1662 perform1724 spiel1870 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B6^v While with teares you sit melodying, Shee shall weepe with you, though shee cannot sing. 1841 J. Ruskin Diary 7 Feb. (1956) I. 150 There is a fellow below the window, melodying on his cheeks or some such instrument. 1989 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Dec. b4 The Stones rolled. McCartney melodied. 2. transitive. To sing a melody. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1894 A. E. Waite Belle & Dragon viii. 139 This mystery was melodied by Lucasta! 1915 Advocate 20 Feb. 1/2 The keynote which one strikes in melodying his psalm of life will ring also through the music. 1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 86 I sang to her, as we'd sung together... But she would not heed What I melodied. Derivatives ˈmelodying n. ΚΠ 1895 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 748/2 He could hear something athwart the melodying which made him put his pipe away. 1979 D. Sudnow Talk's Body xvii. 57 From the standpoint of..those versions of sounding movements we call..‘singing to oneself’, there is only process—..melodying, not melodies. 2009 J. A. Bell Deleuze's Hume i. 25 There is no predetermined way to actualize an improvised melody, there is simply the process whereby the jazz phonemes become actualized, or there is melodying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300v.1596
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