- tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase - a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
--1 is a kind of music
--1 has parts: phrase, musical phrase
--1 has particulars:flourish, fanfare, tucket; glissando; roulade; leitmotiv, leitmotif; theme song; signature, signature tune, theme song; theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea; part, voice Derived form: verb melodize1 - melody, tonal pattern - the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes
--2 is a kind of musical perception