WordNet
n. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, idea]
Usage examples of "musical theme".
Malatesta arrived beside Robbie, quietly humming some musical theme, perhaps the one he'd overheard from Alf.
All at once, as though it were a musical theme making its way through an orchestra, everyone seemed to be talking about stances.
They impressed him like a simple musical theme, the notes of which are widely separated in the scale.
Then came a musical theme of violins and percussion instruments, followed by a frenzied beating of drums.
These were cleft in such a way that he could fit them on the wires almost as rapidly as his musical theme came to him, and Lyddy had learned to transcribe with pen and ink the music she found in wood and wire.
As the musical theme developed his eyes gradually lost their wild look, and a softened expression took its place.
The electronic Pac-Man musical theme and the beeping sounds made by the cookie-gobbling yellow circle on the game board made a bizarre counterpoint to the grimness of murder and the seriousness of the homicide investigation being conducted around them.