melodic
[muh-lod-ik]
Origin of melodic
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They have talent and Lennon/McCartney are the most inventive, wide-ranging and melodically ingenious writers pop has produced.
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Melodically considered, Bach was a genius of the highest order.
A Popular History of the Art of MusicW. S. B. Mathews
Melodically the instrument had little power, although its tone was gentle and sweet.
A Popular History of the Art of MusicW. S. B. Mathews
In other words, a dissonance should only be resolved harmonically, or melodically.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich TchaikovskyModeste Tchaikovsky
Melodically speaking, the standpoint was wrong and the situation false.
A Popular History of the Art of MusicW. S. B. Mathews
melodic
- of or relating to melody
- of or relating to a part in a piece of music
- tuneful or melodious
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Word Origin and History for melodically
melodic
adj.
1818, from French mélodique, from Late Latin melodicus, from Greek melodikos, from melodia (see melody).
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