counterline
countermelody
crab canon
retrograde
countersubject
undermelody
counterpoint
descant
double fugue
trio sonata
tune
contrapuntal
polyphonic
melodicist
plinky-plonky
andantino
Benedictus
secondo
canon
replay
non-harmonic tone
rag
ragtime
melodically
theme
descant on
double
cantus firmus
discant
tone
monody
magadize
whole step
whole tone
step
ground bass
theme song
signature tune
signature
counterfugue
melodylessness
fugue
quodlibet
countertenor
lead vocals
monophony
riff
sonatina
pianissimo
polyrhythm
symphonism
trope
voice
part
first fiddle
homorhythm
melodeonist
head
subtune
non-transposing
chord change
afterbeat
melodicism
noodle
Mass
stride bass
morna
secundo
homophony
melodise
melodize
primo
spiel
support
bassline
play
reharmonisation
concertato
supermelodic
siguiriya
guitarmony
reharmonization
solo
a capella
underbeat
ternary form
jazz up
thematic
arpeggiando
fondamento
limma
contrapuntal
polyphonic
plinky-plonky
non-transposing
supermelodic
a capella
thematic
melodically
counterline
countermelody
crab canon
retrograde
countersubject
undermelody
counterpoint
descant
double fugue
trio sonata
tune
melodicist
andantino
Benedictus
secondo
canon
non-harmonic tone
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theme
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tone
monody
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whole step
whole tone
step
ground bass
theme song
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signature
counterfugue
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fugue
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countertenor
lead vocals
monophony
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sonatina
pianissimo
polyrhythm
symphonism
trope
voice
part
first fiddle
homorhythm
melodeonist
head
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chord change
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melodicism
noodle
Mass
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morna
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homophony
primo
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bassline
reharmonisation
concertato
siguiriya
guitarmony
reharmonization
solo
underbeat
ternary form
arpeggiando
fondamento
limma
replay
descant on
melodise
melodize
spiel
play
jazz up
noun
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
noun
- A melody.
- The act of tuning or maintenance.
- The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
- A song, or short musical composition.
intj
verb
- To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches.
- To attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
- to adjust the parameters of singing voice synthesis software such as VOCALOID (in order to achieve certain singing techniques, increase the human quality of the voice, etc.)
- To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally.
- To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel.
- To be impudent towards; to cheek.
- To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
- To give a certain tone or character to.
- Of faculties, senses, etc.: to adapt to or direct towards a particular target.
noun
- The music that accompanies either of the above.
- The Gospel canticle of Zechariah (Luke 1:68–79), with the incipit Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel (“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel”).
- The second part of the Sanctus, beginning, Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini (“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”), and historically often sung as a separate piece of music.
noun
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
noun
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a small piece of cloth
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
verb
noun
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- The stem of a word.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
verb
noun
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
verb
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adv
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the quality of a person's voice
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a steady sound without overtones
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
verb
noun
- a musical interval of two semitones
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- the distance covered by a step
- the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down
- support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- relative position in a graded series
- a short distance
- the sound of a step of someone walking
- a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface
- a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
- a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
verb
- shift or move by taking a step
- put down or press the foot, place the foot
- cause (a computer) to execute a single command
- treat badly
- furnish with steps
- move with one's feet in a specific manner
- walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner
- place (a ship's mast) in its step
- measure (distances) by pacing
- move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation
noun
- a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program
- your name written in your own handwriting
- a distinguishing style
- the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key
- a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
noun
noun
- A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
- A fugue state.
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
verb
noun
- A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
- A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc).
- A card game that combines several different contracts.
- A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously.
noun
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
- A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
verb
noun
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- (metonymy) a singer
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- the ability to speak
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
verb
noun
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- a portion of a natural object
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- the extended spatial location of something
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- an item that is an instance of some type
verb
- go one's own way; move apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
- force, take, or pull apart
adv
noun
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- An improvised passage of music played on an instrument; also, a series of ornamental notes played on an instrument; a trill.
- A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and other ingredients.
- The brain; the head.
- An object which is long and thin like a noodle (sense 1).
verb
- To play (a musical instrument or passage of music) or to sing (a passage of music) in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play (a series of ornamental notes) on an instrument.
- To clear extraneous material from (an opal).
- To ponder or think, especially in an unproductive or unsystematic manner; to muse.
- To play a musical instrument or to sing in an improvisatory or lighthearted manner; also, to play a series of ornamental notes on an instrument.
- To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
- To hum or sing (a tune) at a low pitch or volume.
- To engage in frivolous behaviour; to fool around or waste time.
- Often followed by about or around: to mess around, to play.
- To search (mullock (“mining or ore processing waste”)) for opals.
- To catch (fish (usually very large catfish), turtles, or other aquatic animals) with the hands; also, to catch (fish) using a gaff or fishing spear; to gaff.
- To obtain (an opal) by searching through mullock.
- To attempt in an informal or uncertain manner; to fiddle.
- To ponder or think about (something).
noun
- A musical composition set to portions of the Mass.
- The principal liturgical service of the Church, encompassing both a scripture service (Liturgy of the Word) and a eucharistic service (Liturgy of the Eucharist), which includes the consecration and oblation (offering) of the host and wine.
- A similar ceremony offered by a number of Christian churches.
verb
verb
noun
- An accompaniment in music.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- Evidence.
- Something which supports.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- Financial or other help.
- A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
verb
- To keep from falling.
- To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
- To help, particularly financially.
- To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
verb
- replay (as a melody)
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
adj
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