Definition of Melima
||Me*lis"ma (?), n.; pl.
Melismata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. me`lisma a
song.] (Mus.) (a) A piece of melody; a
song or tune, -- as opposed to recitative or musical
declamation. (b) A grace or
embellishment.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant.
*1985: 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. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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