MUS110H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Josquin Des Prez, African-American Music, Fugue
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Lecture 5: pitch: terms in relationship to music (for midterm!) Melody: the sequence of individual notes that make up length of indivudal notes , the element of music that many listeners find easiest to recognize and remember (213) Motive: a short melodic fragment crafted to be especially memorable . Conjunct: one pitch tends to follow another one that is either directly above is or directly below it, row, row, row your boat . Disjunction: when a melodic line features melodic motion by large intervals, requiring the performer to jump between non-consecutive pitches in the musical scale, merrily, merrily . Somewhere over the rainbow: disjunction, major 8th interval (perfect octave) Rhythm and melody: lyricism and singability impacted by the rhythmic flow and organization of the pitches. Cadence: a harmonic and melodic stop, found at the end of a phrase of a melody, of a section of a piece, or of an entire piece.
