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Musical Theme

Definition: Musical Theme

Musical Theme

Noun

1. Melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Musical Theme

DomainDefinition

Fine Arts

A melody that is identified with a radio or television program; a signature. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Musical Theme

Synonyms: idea (n), melodic theme (n), theme (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Musical Theme

English words defined with "musical theme": statementvariation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "musical theme": audio logo. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Musical Theme

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fanfare: Fourteen Stories on a Musical Theme (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Musical Theme

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

musical theme

4

desktop musical theme

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Musical Theme

Language Translations for "musical theme"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

indicatif musical. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usicalmay emethay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Musical Theme

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-i-l-m-m-s-t-u"

-3 letters: alchemies, alchemist, chummiest, clammiest, haulmiest, leachiest, leucemias, malemiuts, malemutes, mealtimes, semimetal, timescale.

-4 letters: autecism, calumets, chammies, chelates, clematis, climates, emulates, ethicals, hammiest, hematics, leucemia, leucites, machetes, malemiut, malemute, malmiest, mastiche, mealiest, mealtime, metalise, meticals, mismatch, misteach, muscatel, musicale, mustache, semimute, simulate, summital, tachisme.

-5 letters: achiest, aitches, almuces, amulets, atheism, caesium, calmest, calumet, camlets.

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Alternative Orthography: Musical Theme


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 75 73 69 63 61 6C      54 68 65 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01110101 01110011 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#115 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#84 &#104 &#101 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0073 0069 0063 0061 006C      0054 0068 0065 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4787857569677825474717971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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