AN INTERVAL IS THE GAP BETWEEN TWO NOTES
An interval is the posh musical word for the gap of distance between two notes. Notes close together make small intervals. Notes further apart make larger intervals. There ate two ways of playing an interval:
Melodic Interval- When one note jumps up or down to another note, you get a melodic interval
Harmonic Interval- When two notes are played at the same time, they make a harmonic interval
- You can use melodic intervals to describe the pattern of melody
- In some melodies, there are only small intervals between the notes-no bigger than a tone
- When the notes are close together like this, the melody can be called stepwise, conjunct or scalic (because it moves up or down the notes of a scale)
- Tunes with bud melodic intervals (larger than a tone) are called disjunct
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