How Music Works - Melody

What are the three main ingredients of every melody?

• Notes, rhythm, pattern

• Notes, pitch, intervals

• Notes, pitch, pattern

• Notes, rhythm, intervals

What is the measuring of how high or low a musical note is called?

• Pitch

• Rhythm

• Interval

• Mode

What are the distances between the notes on a musical ladder called?

• Pitch

• Intervals

• Modes

• Rhythm

What are the note groups or scales called in music?

• Rhythms

• Intervals

• Pitches

• Modes

Which mode is associated with a solemn and sorrowful mood?

• Dorian

• Aeolian

• Lydian

• Phrygian

What is the phenomenon known as Blue Notes in music?

• Notes that bend upwards

• Notes that bend downwards

• Notes that are flat

• Notes that are sharp

What did composers in the time of Shakespeare find increasingly inflexible?

• Pitches

• Modes

• Intervals

• Rhythms

What was the name given to the deliberate collisions of notes in Tudor music?

• False notes

• False relations

• False intervals

• False alarms

What was the effect of the variable rung principle on the melodic patterns of the Blues?

• It made the notes bend upwards

• It made the notes faster

• It made the notes bend downwards

• It made the notes slower

What is the term for a sequence of single notes that is musically satisfying in music?

• Melody

• Chord

• Scale

• Harmony