Other forms: melodies
A melody is the line of notes in a song that you find yourself humming. A simple melody, catchy melody, the melody line.
It is what people remember when everything else is forgotten, and it survives being played on any instrument or in any key — which is why it is the part copyright protects most firmly. Note that the Greek means singing, from melos, a musical phrase, plus the word for a song.
1nounmelodyThe line of notes that carries a song.
“I can remember the melody of the song, but not the words.”
melody is a musical line.
Also accepted in games: tune
Greek meloidia is melos, a musical phrase, plus oide, a song. Ode and parody come from the same singing.
Ancient Greek
μελῳδίᾱ — singing, chanting
Latin
melodia
Old French
melodie
Middle English
melodie
English, today
melody
Built from
From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (“singing, chanting”), from μέλος (“musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (“song”), contracted form ᾠδή.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Music, Art & Culture