Melody Words

Question 1

Staccato

Answer 1

with each sound or note sharply detached or separated from the others.

Question 2

Legato

Answer 2

Long and connected

Question 3

Pizzicato

Answer 3

Plucked strings

Question 4

Arch

Answer 4

Pizzicato with the bow

Question 5

Muted

Answer 5

Muted sound

Question 6

Conjunct

Answer 6

Stepwise motion

Question 7

Disjunct

Answer 7

Wide leaps

Question 8

Angular

Answer 8

Moves in leaps. Often by 7ths

Question 9

Syllabic

Answer 9

Each syllable of the text has a note

Question 10

Melisma

Answer 10

Many notes for the word

Question 11

Neumatic

Answer 11

2-4 notes per lyric

Question 12

Cantus firmus

Answer 12

an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition.

Question 13

Ostinato

Answer 13

Repeating pattern

Question 14

Riff

Answer 14

short repeated phrase, frequently played over changing chords or harmonies or used as a background to a solo improvisation

Question 15

Hook

Answer 15

Catch attention

Question 16

Contour

Answer 16

Melody shape

Question 17

Triadic

Answer 17

Built on triads

Question 18

Diatonic

Answer 18

Built on two chords

Question 19

Chromatic

Answer 19

All notes

Question 20

Pentatonic

Answer 20

5 notes

Question 21

Whole tone

Answer 21

Notes in scale

Question 22

Raga

Answer 22

Indian scale

Question 23

Tone row

Answer 23

particular sequence of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale used as a basis for twelve-tone (serial) music.

Question 24

Blues notes

Answer 24

Minor interval where major should be

Question 25

Augmentation

Answer 25

Greater in size

Question 26

Diminution

Answer 26

Becoming smaller

Question 27

Fragmentation

Answer 27

Not the whole

Question 28

Inversion

Answer 28

rearrangement of the top-to-bottom elements in an interval, a chord, a melody, or a group of contrapuntal lines of music

Question 29

Retrograde

Answer 29

Backwards and upside down

Question 30

Sequence

Answer 30

Pattern of notes

Question 31

Motivic development

Answer 31

Developing the melody

Question 32

Slide

Answer 32

Hitting a lot of notes

Question 33

Glissando

Answer 33

Glide from one pitch to another