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In respect to harmony, as distinguished from melody; as, a passage harmonically correct.

To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.

d to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.

A melody; any musical utterance. The throstle cock made eke his lay. Chaucer.

Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. "Liquid melody." Crashaw.

nything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. Tennyson.

A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.

Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.

Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice. "A melodious voice." "A melodious undertone." Longfellow. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Me*lo"di*ous*ness, n.

To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.

The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.

Sound modulated; melody. [R.] Thomson.

Homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.

Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

Any melody determined by inviolable rules. [Obs.]

anzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. With mournful melody it continued this octave. Sir P. Sidney. Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double. -- Octave flute (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also p…

between two other tones, on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.

fitting garments. -- Plain song. (a) The Gregorian chant, or canto fermo; the prescribed melody of the Roman Catholic service, sung in unison, in tones of equal length, and rarely extending beyond the compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.

An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.