- What is the example of melodic contour?
- What are the 5 melodic contour?
- What are the 6 melodic contours?
What is the example of melodic contour?
Think of, for example, your favorite nursery rhyme or your country's national anthem. These melodies all take material from the same twelve-note chromatic scale, so how can they be so different, and how do we as listeners tell them apart?
What are the 5 melodic contour?
... contour consists of five tones presented at different frequencies as follows: (1) 523 Hz for an ascending contour, (2) repetition of a single tone of 392 Hz for a staying the same contour, and (3) 523, 349, 330, 294, and 262 Hz for a descending contour.
What are the 6 melodic contours?
Six sets of melodic contour.
Each of the six contours are (A) ascending-staying the same, (B) ascending–descending, (C) staying the same-ascending, (D) staying the same-descending, (E) descending–ascending, and (F) descending-staying the same.