"melism" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2011, Charles H. Cosgrove, An Ancient Christian Hymn with Musical Notation. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1786: Text and Commentary, →ISBN, page 101:",
          "text": "In the case of two notes in a row, the patterns are often the effect of melisma, the second note of a melism anticipating the note for the next syllable (or the first note of a melism for the next syllable).",
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        "Alternative form of melisma (“passage of multiple notes for a single syllable”)"
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          "word": "melisma"
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