VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Whole Tone Scale, Program Music, Sprechgesang
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Melody a succession of pitches that form a distinctive, coherent musical unit. Contour level, undulating, ascending, descending, arch-shaped. Thomas weelkes, (cid:392)as vesta was from latmos hill descending(cid:393) from the triumphs of oriana (1601) 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. Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of diana, Ex: mozart, eine kleine nachtmusik, first movement motive a short fragment of melody or rhythm used in constructing a long section of music. To indicate more notes rising in pitch the same letter names are stated over again: Western music tradition) and whole steps (twice the size of a half step) that make up the scale.
