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WorksheetsMelodic Devices
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is Call and Response?
A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.
A chord broken into a sequence of notes.
When the melody is flipped upside down.
What is this an example of?
Conjunct
Arpeggio
Chromatic
Augmentation
What is a Melodic Inversion?
A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.
A chord broken into a sequence of notes.
When the melody is flipped upside down.
What is this an example of?
Conjunct
Arpeggio
Chromatic
Augmentation
What is Disjunct?
A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.
A chord broken into a sequence of notes.
When the melody is flipped upside down.
What is this an example of?
Conjunct
Arpeggio
Chromatic
Augmentation
What is an Arpeggio?
A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.
The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.
A chord broken into a sequence of notes.
When the melody is flipped upside down.
What is this an example of?
Conjunct
Arpeggio
Chromatic
Augmentation
Which is an example of a sequence?
What melodic device is used here?
Inversion
Imitation
Diatonic
Call and Response
