noun
- A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence.
- usage: "she was humming an air from Beethoven"
- synonyms: tune, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase
- The perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes.
- synonyms: tonal pattern
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