The Collaborative International Dictionary
Melopoeia
Melopoeia \Mel`o*p[oe]"ia\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; me`los song + poiei^n to make.] (Mus.) The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
Wiktionary
melopoeia
n. (context obsolete English) Art of compose melody.
melopœia
n. (alternative spelling of melopoeia English)
Usage examples of "melopoeia".
Did not they give to melopoeia, choregraphy, and the sundry forms of didascalics, the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?