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10. Melodic Compostion Flashcards

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Anacrusis

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-melody begins before the beat

+ pickup note(s)

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Augmentation

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Form of rhythmic variation where the pitches remain the same but the rhythms are lengthened
-note values are made longer

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Conjunct

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Stepwise motion

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Diminution

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Note values are shortened

Opposite of augmentation

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Disjunct

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Skip-wise motion

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Elision

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Occurs when one phrase ends and the next begins simultaneously with one note or chord functioning to overlap the phrase

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Expansion

  • internal
  • cadential
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Phrase expansion is when the phrase is expanded beyond normal phrase length by adding material to the beginning, middle, or end.

  • introduction- added at beginning (prefix)
  • cadential- added at the end (suffix)
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Fragmentation

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Division of a musical idea (motive, theme, etc.) into segments.

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Imitation

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a melody repeats in a different voice but varied a bit

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Leitmotif

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A motive thematically associated with a person, place, or idea

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Literal Repetition

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Exact Repetition in the same voice

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Melody

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Logical progression of pitches and rhythms.

Linear succession of notes that form a recognizable unit

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Mode Mixture, Modal Borrowing

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Combining chords from parallel major or minor mode to increase harmonic resources.
Provides more variation in harmonies by occasionally borrowing a chord from the parallel minor or major mode.

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Non-Chord Tones

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  • notes that don’t belong in the chord

- create a temporary dissonance

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Non-Harmonic Tones

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Not part of the harmony

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Appoggiatura

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Specific type of incomplete neighbor that leaves the preparation by a leap up and then resolves down by a step.
- this is an accented nct bc it occurs on the beat

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Anticipation tone

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Tone that leaves early from the preparation chord by step to become part of the resolution chord. It anticipates the pitch to come in the next chord.

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Escape Tone (échappée)

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Form of incomplete neighbor that leaves the chord tome by step them resolves in the opposite direction by a leap

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Incomplete Neighbor (Cambiata)

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Non harmonic tone appeared by a skip or leap in one direction and resolved by stepwise motion in the opposite direction. (Occurs in a weak rhythmic position)

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Passing Tones

  • accented
  • unaccented
  • chromatic
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  • accented passing time occurs when the passing time is not a part of the chord OCCURS ON THE BEAt
  • chromatic passing tone is a non-diatonic note (requiring an accidental) connecting two chord tones, one whole step a part

PT are melodic embellishments that fill in between the preparation and resolution by stepwise motion

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Neighbor Tones

-upper and lower

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NCT that decorate a line by moving from one pitch to another one step above (upper neighbor) or below (lower neighbor) and then returning to the original pitch

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Suspension

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When a note in the preparation of the chord is HELD over, suspended, creating a momentary accented dissonance (on the beat) then resolved downward by step to the resolution.

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Retardation

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Suspended note that resolves upward

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Octave Designation

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Octave designations provide a method to correctly identfy every possible musical note from the lowest to highest pitches.

Middle C= C4

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Phrase

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Coherent musical thoughts that move toward a goal: the cadence.

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Phrase Structure

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Phrases typically occur in pairs

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Symmetrical and Asymmetrical

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Same or different length

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Periodic Structure

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How phrases are grouped

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Antecedent- Consequent

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When the first phrase of a pair ends with a weaker cadence and the second ends with a stronger harmonic conclusion (pac)

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Parallel Period

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When the two phrases making up the period begin identically or the second is a variation of the first

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Contrasting Period

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When the two phrases are different from each other

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Double Period

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Group of four phrases in which the only pac occurs at the conclusion of the fourth phrase. The first two and last two phrases are paired to form an antecedent- consequent relationship

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Repeated Period

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Two phrases that form a parallel Period exactly. (Same melodic structure, different cadence, harmonized different)

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Modulating Period

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The modulating period starts the same as the ordinary period and the consequent phrase finishes with a perfect cadence in a new key, usually the relative major or dominant.

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Retrograde

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Melody is played backwards

Retrograde inversion plays the pitches of the original theme exactly backward and inverted

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Rhythmic Displacement

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Keeps the original Structure intact but moves to a different place in the measure

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Sequence

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Melodic sequence refers to repeating the original motive, starting on a different pitch

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Transposition

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Musical transposition is a type of repetition where the starting point (or pitch) of a chord or melody is restated at a different level than the original segment. This restatement may be higher or lower and may occur as many times at different levels as a composer thinks is appropriate.

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Variation

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The original motive is used as the basis for related musical ideas

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Tonic

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Tonal center of the melody

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Mediant

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Defines the harmonic nature, (major or minor) (3rd)

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Dominant

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Fifth scale degree, sol

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Seventh

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Positions your melody to return to the tonic. Leading tone adds tension to the melody

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Sub-phrase

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Melodic unit smaller than a phrase, doesn’t end with a cadence

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Theme

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Compatible melodic phrase anywhere from 2-8 measures

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Inversion or melodic inversion

Mirror inversion

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Imitation of melody upside down from original melody.

If inverted intervals are exact mirror inversion

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Ornamentation or Embellishment

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Technique of adding or decorating the melody with ncts such as passing tones, neighboring tones, and suspensions

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