VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Whole Tone Scale, Common Practice Period, Claude Debussy
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Melody a succession of pitches that form a distinctive, coherent musical unit. Aspects of melody: range narrow, medium, wide, narrow range would be much greater than the human voice. Think about timbre, is the note being produced full and round or is it just a squeal, mumble. Lowest pitch to the highest pitch in the melody line. List the quality of the range: pitch vs tone. Thomas weelkes, (cid:862)as vesta was from latmos hill descending(cid:863) from the triumphs of oriana (1601) Single melody is very narrow, many repeated notes -> level contour: a lot of folk music. Oriana a legendary british princess; used as a poetic designation for queen elizabeth i. As vesta was from latmos hill descending, she spied a maiden queen the same ascending, Attended on by all the shepherds" swain, to whom diana"s darlings came running down amain, And mingling with the shepherds of her train, with mirthful tunes her presence entertain.
