A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.
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Melisma
//məˈlɪzmə//
Synonyms for "melisma"
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6 translations across 6 languages.
Czech
1 entries- melisma noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
Esperanto
1 entries- melismo noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
French
1 entries- mélisme noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
German
1 entries- Melisma noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
Portuguese
1 entries- melisma noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
Spanish
1 entries- melisma noun (a passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text.
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A subsequent generation of singers, including Ms. Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé, built their careers around melisma.
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