EDUC3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Major Scale, Clef
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Reading seven: chapter 8 - pitch 3 (melodic notation) Represented by symbols that create pitch and duration. Staff 5 lines and 4 spaces. These symbols indicate pitch, duration or movement gestures. Melody - a logical succession of musical pitches arranged in a rhythmic pattern. Direction - up, down, stay the same. Range - wide or narrow spectrum of notes ranging from low to high. Position - maybe use notes of high pitches or transposed to low pitches, but as long as the intervals between notes is consistent, the melody can be placed with the total pitch continuum. Intervals - the distance between the pitches of the melody may be steps from one note to an adjacent note, or skips where pitches leap from one to another skipping a tone or tones. Singing melodies with solfege - the voice. Scales - major and minor - melodies are made up of the tones in a scale.
