fanfare vs melody

fanfare and melody both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fanfare	Yes	No	No	No
melody	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, melody is a hypernym of fanfare; that is, melody is a word with a broader meaning than fanfare:

Other hypernyms of fanfare include air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, strain, tune.

fanfare (noun)	melody (noun)
a gaudy outward display	the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments	a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence