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  • noun music A focus on the development of melody

Etymologies

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melodic +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Flashiness is always rated higher than the melodicism he specializes in.

    Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011

  • Flashiness is always rated higher than the melodicism he specializes in.

    Michael Giltz: Music: Revenge Of The Seventies Singer-Songwriter! Michael Giltz 2011

  • As attractive as their worldly melodicism is, it's hard to imagine an English-speaking act getting away with generalizations as simplistic as: hypocrisy in politics, it's not good, we don't want any.

    Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali 2009

  • Her work is itself a series of contradictions, its repetitive, haunting fugues are undercut constantly by a playful melodicism which might then grow more discordant and frenetic, all morphing naturally, unfolding from itself.

    Buzzine » Meredith Monk at the Guggenheim 2009

  • As attractive as their worldly melodicism is, it's hard to imagine an English-speaking act getting away with generalizations as simplistic as: hypocrisy in politics, it's not good, we don't want any.

    Amadou And Mariam: Well Beyond Mali 2009

  • Through his many years of genre-bending melodicism with Mr. Costello – from staccato punk to Farfisa soul to their most recent incarnation as a kind of post-punk cabaret duo – Mr. Nieve has grown to embrace the somewhat silly moniker.

    Costello Sideman Steve Nieve: Now He Has a Trio of His Own 1999

  • Their marriage, and her absorption into the band as a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, beginning with the excellent Perverted By Language, helped shift the Fall from droning, atonal minimalism to droning, atonal melodicism.

    The Fall 1999

  • Brandi Carlile Monday The delicate falsetto of Ms. Carlile lends itself beautifully to country-pop melodicism and spare acoustic backing.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • The New York Times wrote that "The team's finest songs are marked by a contemporary conversational fluency and precision of phrase, joined to a graceful Old World melodicism that looks back often wistfully to the turn-of-the-century operetta."

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • Asphyx and Unleashed have bludgeoned with mid-paced power chords for decades, and Incantation already perfected dark, murky tones and chromatic melodicism.

    INVISIBLE ORANGES - THE METAL BLOG 2010

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