- published: 12 Sep 2013
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A melody (from Greek μελῳδία - melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while, more figuratively, the term has occasionally been extended to include successions of other musical elements such as tone color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody.
Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs, and are usually repeated throughout a song or piece in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape.
Given the many and varied elements and styles of melody "many extant explanations [of melody] confine us to specific stylistic models, and they are too exclusive." Paul Narveson claimed in 1984 that more than three-quarters of melodic topics had not been explored thoroughly.
Find little notes in my bed
I got songs tangled up in my hair
I see piano keys everywhere
My heart is a beating drum
Repeating my favorite song
I hear Beethoven #9
All the time
And it's kinda like do-re-mi
About as easy as a-b-c
Beautiful like a symphony
I'm talking about you and me
[Chorus]
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I was little off key, then you melodyned me
And I'm better than ever
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I had the beat a bit wrong but
I got a new song now
So I put my headphones on
Plug into you
Plug into you
Boy you're my favorite song
Plug into you
Plug into you
You're so wrong
That it makes you right
Keep me wide awake at night
I can't sleep now I know you're around
I'll la-listening and singing every sound
I love it when I hear your voice baby,
I don't think we realy had a choice
Mozart is in the air,and I'm right here
And it's kinda like do-re-mi
About as easy as a-b-c
Beautiful like a symphony
I'm talking about you and me
[Chorus]
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I was little off key, then you melodyned me
And I'm better than ever
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I had the beat a bit wrong but
I got a new song now
So I put my headphones on
Plug into you
Plug into you
Boy you're my favorite song
Plug into you
Plug into you
I wake up in the middle of the night
Can't stop for the melodies that I hear,
The melodies baby I hear
Melodies all the time,and I'm about to go crazy
Keep on singing I'm about to see you baby,
You're my melodie
And I - I hear melodies in my heart
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I was little off key, then you melodyned me
And I'm better than ever
I hear melodies in my heart
Hear melodies in my head
I had the beat a bit wrong but
I got a new song now
So I put my headphones on
Plug into you
Plug into you
Boy you're my favorite song
Plug into you
Plug into you