Learn Credit - Intermediate 2 - Melodic concepts
Modulating | Relative major | Relative minor | Tonal | Atonal | Trill | Grace note | Syllabic |Melismatic| Word setting |Word painting | Blues Scale | Whole tone scale | Intervals
| The act of moving from one key to another. | ||
| The key with the same key signature as the associated Minor key. Listen to this excerpt moving from the Minor key to the relative Major. | ||
| The key with the same key signature as the associated Major key. Listen to this excerpt from the Major key to the relative Minor. | ||
A piece of music based on a key either Major or Minor. Listen to an excerpt from a Folk Song. |
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| Not having a key signature or Tonal centre. This is associated with Modern music and in particular, music which is made up using the twelve tone method of composition. | ||
An Ornament. The rapid repetition of two notes e.g. at the end of a Cadenza in a Concerto . |
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A term used for Ornaments and usually associated with bagpipe music. The example is from a Pibroch. |
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in which each syllable of a word is given one note. Listen to an example from a folk song.
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Vocal music in which one syllable is sung over a number of notes.
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Setting the words of a poem to music. |
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When the musical sound helps to describe a word E.g. a run on the word shake or a descending scale on the word falling etc.
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In the key of C the main blues notes are C,Eb,F, Gb, G, Bb, C
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A common interval in western music which consists of two semi-tones. i,e starting on C,D, E, F# G# A# C. Listen to an example of piano music which uses a whole tone scale. |
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The interval or gap between two notes.
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2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th octave