MUSIC 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Concertmaster, Dido, Scherzo
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Tests cover all music previously listened to throughout the course. Ta: esther hall-cotterell: email: hallcole@mcmaster. ca, office: tsh b109a, office hours: Melody is a single line of notes heard in succession as a coherent units. A melody has shape, moving up and down in ways that capture and hold our attention over a span of time. A melody is like a story: it has a beginning, middle and an end. A note (or pitch): smallest unit of music. Cadence points of arrival/rest: like a period in a sentence. Melodic motion: conjunct motion: smooth melody in which notes are adjacent to one another steps, disjunct motion: melody skips around and notes jump from high to low. Scales: notes of melody are typically derived from the notes of a scale. Contour: upward or downward movement (motion of melody) Tonic: most important pitch in a piece of music (c in a c major scale) Rhythm is the ordering of music through time.
