Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or science of constructing melodies; melodies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
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- noun obsolete Art of
composing melodies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the case of a poem, some measure of "melopoeia" Ezra Pound's word for the melodious aspect of verse must enter in and infuse the text in question.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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In the case of a poem, some measure of "melopoeia" Ezra Pound's word for the melodious aspect of verse must enter in and infuse the text in question.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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In the case of a poem, some measure of "melopoeia" Ezra Pound's word for the melodious aspect of verse must enter in and infuse the text in question.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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In the case of a poem, some measure of "melopoeia" Ezra Pound's word for the melodious aspect of verse must enter in and infuse the text in question.
Michele Somerville: The Truth Behind The Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal Michele Somerville 2011
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Mediterranean itself and to be in rhythm, like its melopoeia.
Une Vie 2003
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Mediterranean itself and to be in rhythm, like its melopoeia.
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But Hamilcar took the path towards the mill, from which there might be heard issuing a mournful melopoeia.
Salammbo 2003
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This was the art of animating a poetic idea by means of melopoeia; which Wagner later developed still further.
Style in Singing W. E. Haslam
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That odd melopoeia was executed standing, with the eyes fixed, the eyebrows crumpled, the brow knit, and with an appearance of effort.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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She had that singing, labored diction, that monotonous melopoeia which seems to have been dear to the least poetic people in the world since the days of the
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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