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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
melodic + -ism
melodicism (uncountable)
- (music) A focus on the development of melody
2000, Ted Gioia, “Cool Jazz and West Coast Jazz”, in Bill Kirchner, editor, Oxford Companion to Jazz[1], →ISBN, page 340:No sense of aloofness or distance diluted his warm melodicism.
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