1 the main tune in a piece of music that is often played or sung more than once:
Could you play the melody for me?
In that case the grammar would have a phonotactic filter permitting /0/ to form nuclei only with single-x nonconsonantal melodies.
The results showed that the overall form returned to the conservative nature of the original rule-based melodies.
Some of the reformed versions of certain chants were clearly based on differing 'originals', or even on quite different (though equally 'authentic') melodies.
They belong, then, to that group of smaller melodies referred to above.
The incoherence of the lyrics is made irrelevant by the coherence of melody, rhythm and accompaniment, and by the power of performance.
The scalar organisation of these chorus melodies also offers an interesting contrast with their verses.
It has some hallmarks of music for novices, for example the use of the familiar melody and its epigrammatic disposition phrase by phrase.
As discussed earlier, the verse melodies of these three songs are all pentatonic.
