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    Melody is a musical line consisting of pitch and rhythm. It is the linear presentation of notes, often with a memorable theme. A melody can be characterized by its contour and the size of intervals between notes. Harmony involves two or more notes sounded together, such as a melody with accompaniment. Dynamics, duration, and timbre are elements that add expression and emotion to music through variations in loudness, length of notes, and tone quality.

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    Melody is a musical line consisting of pitch and rhythm. It is the linear presentation of notes, often with a memorable theme. A melody can be characterized by its contour and the size of intervals between notes. Harmony involves two or more notes sounded together, such as a melody with accompaniment. Dynamics, duration, and timbre are elements that add expression and emotion to music through variations in loudness, length of notes, and tone quality.

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    Melody is a musical line consisting of pitch and rhythm. It is the linear presentation of notes, often with a memorable theme. A melody can be characterized by its contour and the size of intervals between notes. Harmony involves two or more notes sounded together, such as a melody with accompaniment. Dynamics, duration, and timbre are elements that add expression and emotion to music through variations in loudness, length of notes, and tone quality.

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    Melody –It is a musical line, a combination of pitch and rhythm (some say

    "duration").  Sometimes a melody is considered to be the theme of a


    composition. We might characterize melody by its contour (rising or falling) and
    the size of the intervals in it. 
    It is the LINEAR/HORIZONTAL presentation of pitch (the word used to describe
    the highness or lowness of a musical sound). Many famous musical compositions
    have a memorable melody or theme.
    It is a single succession of notes arranged in steps or in skips.
    Range- The distance between the lowest and highest note.
    Scale- The pattern used to make a melody.
    Interval- The distance between 2 notes.
    Ex. Major scale -A seven note scale with composed of whole steps and half steps.
    interval.

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    Minor scale A seven note scale still composed of half and whole steps but has
    different melodic intervals than the major scale.

    e3cvceph.midi

    Pentatonic Scale A five note scale with all whole step intervals.

    ol13kyp6.midi

    Whole tone scale- A seven tone scale which is composed of all whole steps.
    qtct5j9t.midi

    Chromatic scale- A 12 tone Scale composed of all half steps.

    ohgpc3jr.midi

    Harmony- It is composed of 2 or more notes sounded together.


    -melody plus accompaniment.
    - The depth of music
    Triad- A set of 3 notes taken from the scale which the first(Root),3rd and
    5th notes of the scale.

    Dynamics- Dynamics means how quietly or loudly a piece of music should be


    played.
    -Dynamics are an important way of conveying the mood of a piece and

    your use of dynamics is a marked element of your performance.


    - It adds emotions to music.

    The different Dynamic symbols:


    Duration- It is an amount of time or how long or short a note, phrase,
    section, or composition lasts.
    - It is the length of time a pitch, or tone, is sounded

    Symbols that gives different sound durations:


    1. Note values
    2. Staccato- is a form of musical articulation. In modern notation, it
    signifies a note of shortened duration, separated from the note
    that may follow by silence.
    -It is executed short and quick.

    3. Tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch,
    indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to
    the sum of the individual notes' values.
    4.Fermata-also known as a hold sign or as a grand pause when placed on a
    note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the
    note should be prolonged or held beyond the normal duration its
    note value.

    Timbre – Tone quality of tone color


    refers to the character, texture, and colour of a sound that defines it.
    For example: The timbre of the voice of your grandmother is different
    from the timbre of the voice of your Mom .Same with
    musical instruments.

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