<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (March 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> The mélodie arose just before the middle of the 19th century in France . Though the lied had reached its peak in the early 19th century, the mélodie developed independently of that tradition . Instead, it grew more directly from the earlier genre of French songs known as the romance . These songs, while apparently quite similar to the mélodie, were then as now viewed as being of a lighter and less specific nature . The text of a mélodie was more likely to be taken from contemporary, serious poetry and the music was also generally of a more profound sort . Further, while most composers in this genre were Romantics, at least in chronology, certain features of mélodies have led many to view them as not properly Romantic . </P> <P> Some of the first mélodies were those of Hector Berlioz . He was among the first to use the term to describe his own compositions, and his song cycle Les nuits d'été (1841) is still considered an example of the genre . Whatever Berlioz' chronological precedence, Charles Gounod is often viewed as the first distinct composer of mélodies: his compositional style evolves imperceptibly and illustratively from romance to mélodie . He wrote over 200 mélodies, on texts by such poets as Victor Hugo and Lamartine . His setting of Lord Byron's Maid of Athens, in English, is a perfect example of a romance that has become a mélodie . </P>

How are the lied and the melodie similar how are they different which came first