Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /məˈlɪzmə/
  • US:
    • IPA: /məˈlɪzmə/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.melism

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (music) A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in Gregorian chant.

Exempel

  • 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.
  • 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.

Böjningsformer

Pluralmelismas
Pluralmelismata