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- Color Melodies, i.e. melodies that sound pretty.
- Direction Melodies, i.e. melodies that go somewhere.
- Blends, i.e. melodies that use both color AND direction.
- What is the 2 types of melody?
- What are the 5 properties of melody?
- What are examples of melody?
- What type of music is melody?
What is the 2 types of melody?
Conjunct and Disjunct Melodic Motion
There are two types of melodic motion: conjunct motion, which proceeds by step from one scale degree to the next (i.e., by the interval of a second) and disjunct motion, which proceeds by leap (i.e., by intervals larger than a second).
What are the 5 properties of melody?
Kliewer states, "The essential elements of any melody are duration, pitch, and quality (timbre), texture, and loudness. Though the same melody may be recognizable when played with a wide variety of timbres and dynamics, the latter may still be an "element of linear ordering."
What are examples of melody?
For example: Solo vocalists use melody when they sing the main theme of a song. Choral vocalists sing melodies as a group. Some choruses sing the same notes in unison, like in the traditions of ancient Greece.
What type of music is melody?
melody, in music, the aesthetic product of a given succession of pitches in musical time, implying rhythmically ordered movement from pitch to pitch. Melody in Western music by the late 19th century was considered to be the surface of a group of harmonies.
