tune **
melody *
air , *****
strain **
melodic line
line *****
melodic phrase

The movement's three themes are imitated, frequently while another voice has yet to complete its melodic phrase.

The motives of each movement are defined by dynamics, rather than a melodic phrase.

The song of the male consists of melodic musical phrases.

It had tenderness and grace but no exaggerated yanking of the melodic phrases.

Very few would be able to achieve something like the musical equivalent: set down two four-bar melodic phrases, the second answering the first.

Some songs were broken up and their melodic phrases distributed piecemeal.

Distinctively, they are played using extensive variations on a few melodic phrases, and a single song can last over an hour.

Otherwise the wording of each new gift is sung to a repeated melodic phrase.

In the sparse style, a full chord is often played only at the beginning of a melodic phrase.

At times he ended melodic phrases abruptly and halted in his delivery.