VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Weelkes, British Princess, Tonality
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Definition: melody a succession of pitches that form a distinctive, coherent musical unit. Aspects of melody: range narrow, medium, wide, contour level, undulating, ascending, descending, arch-shaped, motion conjunct, disjunct, ornamentation unornamented, highly ornamented. Triumphs of oriana (1601: oriana a legendary british princess; used as a poetic designation for queen. As vesta was from latmos hill descending, she spied a maiden queen the same ascending, Attended on by all the shepherds" swain, to whom diana"s darlings came running down amain, And mingling with the shepherds of her train, with mirthful tunes her presence entertain. Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of diana, Whole-tone scale a six-note scale comprised entirely of whole steps: 1 1 . Harmony the relationship of pitches as they sound simultaneously. Chord three or more pitches sounding simultaneously. Cadence a melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of repose or resolution.
