#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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