Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Simple melodic pattern. Play ⓘ Melodic sequence on the lines "Send her victorious," and "Happy and glorious," from "God Save the Queen" Play ⓘ In music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern. It is a figure that can be used with any scale.
In music, a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice. [1] It is one of the most common and simple methods of elaborating a melody in eighteenth and nineteenth century classical music [1] (Classical period and Romantic music). Characteristics of sequences: [1]
the ascending melodic minor scale or jazz minor scale (also known as the Ionian ♭ 3 or Dorian ♯ 7): this form of the scale is also the 5th mode of the acoustic scale. the descending melodic minor scale: this form is identical to the natural minor scale . The ascending and descending forms of the A melodic minor scale are shown below:
1. These words describe things that are part of something larger. 2. Essential tools for creating music. 3. Characteristics/qualities of a large mammal. 4. These words are related to a particular ...
Carter-style lick. [1] Play ⓘ In popular music genres such as country, blues, jazz or rock music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" [2] consisting of a short series of notes used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment. For musicians, learning a lick is usually a form of imitation. By imitating, musicians understand and analyze what ...
Period built of two five-bar phrases in Haydn's Feldpartita in B ♭, Hob. II:12. [1] Diagram of a period consisting of two phrases [2] [3] [4]. In music theory, a phrase (Greek: φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, [5] built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections.
In the major scale or any of its modes, a step will always be a movement of 1 or 2 semitones, and a skip a movement of 3 or more semitones. In other scales an augmented second—an incomposite step equivalent to 3 semitones—and/or a diminished third—a skip of 2 semitones—may be possible.
A melodic motif is a melodic formula, established without reference to intervals. A rhythmic motif is the term designating a characteristic rhythmic formula, an abstraction drawn from the rhythmic values of a melody. A motif thematically associated with a person, place, or idea is called a leitmotif or idée fixe. [7]