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melodics

melodics noun: the branch of music theory that deals with pitch, harmony, and melody.

Noun

melodics (uncountable)

  1. The branch of music theory that deals with pitch, harmony, and melody.
  2. The analysis of poetry in terms of the use of meter, rhyme, alliteration, and repetition to create a lyrical sound when read aloud.
    • melodics cannot be of central interest in the case of long poems.2016, Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall, Thinking Poetry, page 25

Words formed from melodics

Questions about melodics

What does melodics mean?
Melodics means the branch of music theory that deals with pitch, harmony, and melody.
What part of speech is melodics?
Melodics is a noun.

Words near melodics in the dictionary

  1. melodicas
  2. melodicism
  3. melodicist
  4. melodicists
  5. melodicity
  6. melodics
  7. Melodie
  8. melodied
  9. melodies
  10. melodikon
  11. melodiograph

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