musical theme

Questions about musical theme

What does musical theme mean?

musical theme means "(music) melodic subject of a musical composition".

What is another word for musical theme?

Close synonyms include theme, melodic theme, idea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musical theme a common word?

musical theme is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.