What is a melody? Intervals, devices and more Gymnasium

What does a 'slur' mean?

• Separate the pitches

• Move legato between pitches

• Jump to the next pitch

• Just makes the music look more complicated

What is this an example of?

• Sequence

• Same pitch

• Scalic run

• 8th notes

Select the intervals (distance between the notes) and the contour (shape)

• Contour: Ascending

• Contour: Descending

• Interval: Steps

• Interval: Leaps

On which notes are there accidentals?

• C and low D

• C and high D

• F and C

• F and low D

Focusing on bars 1 and 3, what musical word best describes what is happening?

• Scalic run

• Sequence

• Repetition

• Accidentals

This is a sequence, choose a definition for it

• Moving in steps

• Moving in leaps

• Idea repeated exactly

• Idea repeated but each repetition starting a pitch lower

Select the two ways in which you can describe this interval movement

• Steps

• 2nds

• 3rds

• Skips

• Leaps

What is this interval?

• Step

• Skip

• 3rd

• 4th

What are the similarities between the melody (mel.) and harmony (harm.) in this example?

• Melody uses different notes to the harmony (chord)

• Melody uses same notes to the harmony (chord)

• Melody and harmony have the same rhythm

• Melody and harmony have no similarities

What are the similarities between the melody (mel.) and harmony (harm.) in this example?

• Melody uses different notes to the harmony (chord)

• Melody uses same notes to the harmony (chord)

• Melody and harmony have the same rhythm

• Melody and harmony have no similarities