VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Claude Debussy, Chromatic Scale, Whole Tone Scale
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Vpma93 lecture 3 melody, tonality, harmony: melody can be very similar or different to one another, melody a succession of pitches that form a distinctive, coherent musical unit, aspects of melody, range narrow, medium, wide. Relative to the instrument eg. piano would have a very narrow range than a human voice. Opera has a narrow range: contour level, undulating, ascending, descending, arch-shaped. Easy for lots of people to sing a melody with a lot of repetition notes and a narrow range. Scared music with lots of repetition and soft pitch is often played during religious gatherings/talks: motion conjunct, disjunct. Pitches very closed together (conjunct) or are there gaps in-between pitches (disjunct) Opera usually has conjunct motion: ornamentation unornamented, highly ornamented. Detailed notes and are played fairly quickly high ornamented. Regular or symmetrical phases complement each other and audience have a good idea of when phase starts or ends eg. mozart.
