Ditty
Ditty noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.
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Synonyms for Ditty
Tune
Tune noun - A rhythmic series of musical tones arranged to give a pleasing effect.
Usage example: hummed a little tune while I sorted the laundry
Ditty is a synonym for tune in lyric topic. You can use "Ditty" instead a noun "Tune", if it concerns topics such as song, melody, catchy tune. popular alternative
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The Musical: The whole show features singing, from the recurring ditty for solving problems to at least one tune specific to each short.
Source: Western Animation / Peg + Cat -
Many Americans are undoubtedly familiar with "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here." Considerably fewer might be aware of the fact that the tune is from a Pirates of Penzance ditty called "Come, Friends Who Plow the Sea."
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Ironic Nursery Tune: Not quite a nursery rhyme, per se, but the Victorian ditty Daisy Bell plays at the start of the pilot, alluding to Emma's mother Maggie, aka 'Daisy', who was the Final Girl of the Brandon James murders.
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