The word "melody" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a pleasant or harmonious sound or sequence of musical notes, usually forming a distinct part of a musical composition. For example: "The melody of the song was both beautiful and haunting."
'We're not afraid of using words like pop and melody.
And when melody and sweeter notes do break out, it's like seeing a butterfly emerge from a dust storm.
The underscoring melody tells us what is really going on.
"Nowak goes to church meetings all over Poland, 30 to 40 a year, openly singing his antisemitic melody," said Tomasz Królak, deputy head of the Catholic Information Agency in Warsaw.
Pharrell adding a half-arsed melody about hanging around looking for a shag?
That is partly down to their influences – deep house and UK garage are hardly genres that lack feeling – and partly down to the ease with which they can knock out a pop melody as sparkling as You & Me.
"'Die!' Yes, I will!" It was the high point of a short-lived pop career, whose other highlights included scoring three top 20 UK hits and winding up luminaries on the indie-rock scene in a series of cheeky interviews with NME and Melody Maker (Placebo's Brian Molko threw a spectacular hissy fit because they mocked his thinning hair).
"As a snoring solution company, we're in the business of keeping people together", said Melody Devemark, spokesperson for SnoreStop.
In 1998, some incoherent remarks he made to Melody Maker, linking the military force and violence of the ancient Greeks, Romans and Nazis to homosexuality, prompted astonishment and disapprobation.
Melody Laila, for example, electronically lambasts the inadequate public services in her native Mumbai, as well as the kid-glove treatment of corrupt politicians in Delhi.
Melody Eastman has had unlikely success as a Lutheran pastor in Wheaton, Illinois, home to America's best Evangelical college.
