#tune__melody__air__strain__melodic_line__melodicline__line__melodic_phrase__melodicphrase  a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
  supertype:  music  an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
  part:  musical_phrase
  subtype:  fanfare__flourish  a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"
  subtype:  glissando  a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale
     subtype:  swoop.glissando__slide  rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; "the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides"
  subtype:  leitmotiv__leitmotif  a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas)
  subtype:  theme_song__themesong  a melody that recurs and comes to represent a musical play or movie
  subtype:  signature_tune__signaturetune__signature__theme_song__themesong  a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program
  subtype:  melodic_theme__melodictheme__theme__musical_theme__musicaltheme__idea  melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"
     subtype:  motive__motif  a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music
        subtype:  obligato__obbligato  a persistent but subordinate motif
     subtype:  statement.melodic_theme  (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"
     subtype:  variation.melodic_theme  a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
  subtype:  part.tune__voice  the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; "he tried to sing the tenor part"
     subtype:  primo  the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet)
     subtype:  secondo  the second or lower part of a duet (especially a piano duet)
     subtype:  voice_part__voicepart  a part written for a singer
        subtype:  canto.voice_part  the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
     subtype:  musical_accompaniment__musicalaccompaniment__accompaniment__support  a subordinate musical part; provides background for more important parts
        subtype:  descant  a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
        subtype:  vamp.musical_accompaniment  an improvised musical accompaniment
     subtype:  bass_part__bass  the lowest part in polyphonic music
        subtype:  ground_bass  a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated
        subtype:  thorough_bass__basso_continuo__bassocontinuo  a bass part written out in full and accompanied by figures for successive chords
        subtype:  figured_bass  a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them to indicate the chords to be played

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