Music-Melody
- Created by: Zoe
- Created on: 03-04-13 21:46
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- Melody
- Intervals
- An Interval is the distance between two different notes
- Scales
- Diatonic: Based on notes of the current key
- Chromatic: the music contains notes that don't belong to the current key of the music
- Pentatonic: a scale made up of only 5 notes (e.g C-D-E-G-A)
- Whole tone: A six note scale in which there is an interval of a tone between each note (e.g C-E flat-F-G flat-G natural-B flat)
- Blues Scale: a major scale with flattened third, fifth and seventh degrees
- Modal: based on a type of seven note scale called a mode
- Melodic Contour (shape)
- Conjunct: Movement mostly by step
- Disjunct: Movement in larger intervals (by leap)
- Ascending: The melody rises
- Descending: the melody descends
- Triadic: centred around the notes of one or more triads
- Scalic: Uses scale patterns
- Based on arpeggios or broken chords: the notes of a chord are heard one after another
- Ornamentation
- Added to decorate a melody
- Passing note: A note that isn't part of the current chord and comes between two passing notes at a 3rd
- Acciaccatura: a quick note before the main note
- Glissando/slide/ portamento: smooth slide between two notes
- Pitch bend: a short slide up or down to a main note
- Developing Melodies
- Ostinato: A short melodic idea that is repeated continually (riff in popular music)
- Sequence: A melodic idea that is immediately repeated at a different pitch
- Inversion: A melodic idea that has been turned upside down. Every upwards step or leap is changed to a downwards one
- Intervals
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