A melody is a sequence of musical notes that sound like a single, recognizable tune. It is often the part of the music you can hum or sing along with.
From Old French “melodie”, from Latin “melodia”, from Greek “melōidia” meaning 'singing, a choral song', from “melos” 'song' and “ōidē” 'ode, song'. It originally referred to singing, not just instrumental tunes. Over time, it came to mean any line of musical notes forming a tune.
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