VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chromatic Scale, Tonality, Klangfarbenmelodie
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Melody a succession of pitches that form a distinctive, coherent musical unit. Each culture has it"s own way of defining melody. Lowest pitch in your piece to the highest pitch. Large range for one instrument may be a different (medium) range for another instrument or human voice. Example: opera singers have very large ranges, while folk music is very narrow in range. Is it a wave: motion conjunct, disjunct. Does it seem very close together or are there leaps: ornamentation unornamented, highly ornamented. Klangfarbenmelodie a technique created by german composers where instruments maintaining constant pitches drop in and out of the orchestra, creating a melody of tone colours rather than shapes of the pitch line. Phrase a self-contained portion of a melody. Twinkle twinkle has regular or symmetrical phrasing. It"s relaxing to listen to because you know what to expect from the melody in terms of how long it"ll be, where it"s going to go.
