melos means the melody in Ancient Greek music. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why “melos” is a great word
MELOS — [Noun] In Ancient Greek music, the performed melodic line of a composition; the living substance of a tune. From Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos), originally meaning 'limb' or 'part' (of the body), later extended to mean 'musical member' or 'melody'. Unlike harmonia (which denotes the abstract system of scales, the invisible lattice of rules) or rhythmos (which dictates the measured temporal structure, the skeleton of beat), melos is the living, performed filament of sound. It is the unspooling of a shepherd’s reed melody across a hillside, the precise and grieving lift of a singer’s voice over a fixed rhythm, and the solitary thread of a poet’s lament as it breaks on a long-voweled name—the ephemeral body of song, remembered long after its theory has been forgotten.
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- The melody in Ancient Greek music.