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- English Word Melodeon Definition A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.
- English Word Melodeon Definition A music hall.
- English Word Melodic Definition Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
- English Word Melodics Definition The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
- English Word Melodies Definition of Melody
- English Word Melodiograph Definition A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.
- English Word Melodious Definition Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
- English Word Melodist Definition A composer or singer of melodies.
- English Word Melodize Definition To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.
- English Word Melodize Definition To make melody; to compose melodies; to harmonize.
- English Word Melodized Definition of Melodize
- English Word Melodizing Definition of Melodize
- English Word Melodrama Definition Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- English Word Melodramatic Definition Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
- English Word Melodramatist Definition One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.
- English Word Melodrame Definition Melodrama.
- English Word Melody Definition A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
- English Word Melody Definition A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and characteristic in expression.
- English Word Melody Definition The air or tune of a musical piece.
- English Word Meloe Definition A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.