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2. Music of the Mother series - Wikipedia

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   The "Eight Melodies" song from Mother received some popularity, and was included in some Japanese music textbooks due to its simplicity. [21] A full sheet music book for Mother has never officially been made available, but after its release on the Virtual Console as EarthBound Beginnings , the entire soundtrack was transcribed by a fan into ...

3. Catchiness - Wikipedia

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   "Actually, the more conventional your melody in terms of the interval patterns that you use; in terms of the rhythms that you use, the easier the song is to remember over the long term. What makes Wannabe work so well is that it isn’t a difficult song to sing, it has a conventional melody that repeats itself a lot, and it’s just relentless."

4. Musical composition - Wikipedia

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   Since the invention of sound recording, a classical piece or popular song may exist as a recording.If music is composed before being performed, music can be performed from memory (the norm for instrumental soloists in concerto performances and singers in opera shows and art song recitals), by reading written musical notation (the norm in large ensembles, such as orchestras, concert bands and ...

5. Contrafact - Wikipedia

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   More recently, Cheap Imitation (1969) by John Cage was produced by systematically changing notes from the melody line of Socrate by Erik Satie using chance procedures. In jazz , a contrafact is a musical composition consisting of a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure .

6. Resolution (music) - Wikipedia

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   Resolution in Western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding one). Dissonance, resolution, and suspense can be used to create musical interest.

7. Melodic motion - Wikipedia

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   Ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl describes various types of melodic movement or contour to categorise a song's melody. There are three general categories, ascending, descending, and undulating: [1] Ascending: Upwards melodic movement (only found in remote regions). Descending: Downwards melodic movement (prevalent in the New World and Australian ...

8. Prosody (music) - Wikipedia

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   In music, prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung, or to set the music with regard to the ambiance of the lyrics. However, the relationship between syllables and melodic notes is just one dimension of musical prosody.

9. Interpolation (popular music) - Wikipedia

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   Interpolation is prevalent in many genres of popular music; early examples are the Beatles interpolating "La Marseillaise" and "She Loves You", among three other interpolations in the 1967 song "All You Need Is Love", [3] and Lyn Collins interpolating lyrics from the 5 Royales' "Think" in her similarly titled 1972 song "Think (About It)".