MUSIC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, The Star-Spangled Banner, Melodic Motion
10 Oct 2016
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For a melody to be useful in music, the pitch range has to be narrower. For melodies to be memorable, have to fit in the normal range of pitch. Average human voice can cover up to an octave and a half. Children music is more similar than adult music around the world: nursery rhymes, games. A scale is a sequence of pitches within an octave arranged in ascending or descending order. Melodic motion melodies made up of a mixture of steps, leaps, and repeated notes. Distance from lower note to higher note. Melodic range is the span from the highest to lowest tone. E. g. wide star spangled banner, narrow twinkle, twinkle, little star. Melodic line or shape is the graphic representation of the sequence of pitches, up/down. A phrase is a (cid:862)u(cid:374)it(cid:863) of (cid:373)elody, like a se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e. God save the quee(cid:374)/ my cou(cid:374)try (cid:858)tis of thee: steps, melodic sequence rhythm/movement pattern repeated at a different pitch le(cid:448)el (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) de(cid:448)i(cid:272)e.
