Month: January 2023

Melody Research, Analysis, and Recording Project

Summary

  • I spent a week learning about melody and how it works.

Notes from Howard Goodall’s Melody Video

CueNotes

what did i forget?		melody is organized into modes, modes are like scaled but difrent
the modern scale we use is the 12 note temprament scale.
the pentatonic scale is used for melodys a lot
the diffrence between notes is an interval

Summary: Summarize what you learned from the video here..

Melody Composition Terms and Definitions

  • Theme: A long, flowing melodic idea.
  • Motive: A short, rhythmic idea (Beethoven’s 5th).
  • Period: 8-12 measures or a musical sentence.
  • Phrase: Usually 4 measures.
  • Antecedent (Question) Phrase: First 4 measures of a period.
  • Consequent (Answer) Phrase: Second 4 measures of a period.
  • Scale Degrees (C Major Scale)
    • Tonic: C (1 , 8) – Stability and resolve.
    • Supertonic, Mediant, Submediant: D, E, A (2 , 3 , 6) – Moderate tension, useful for transitions and carrying on an idea.
    • Subdominant, Dominant, Leading Tone: F, G, B (4 , 5 , 7) – Causes the most tension, leads to the tonic.
  • Steps: Any movement using half or whole steps.
  • Leaps: Any movement using intervals larger than a whole step.
  • Conjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of steps.
  • Disjunct motion: Melody is built primarily out of leaps.
  • Repetition: Repeated material (i.e. motive) used to create a link between two phrases of the period.
  • Contrast: Two phrases that contain contrasting material to create tension and interest.
  • Variation: Halfway between contrast and repetition. The two phrases include some recognizable material and some varied material (i.e. taking ideas up an octave).

One of My first Melodies

it is a dark melody but it sounds ok.

fav melody

duality by slipknot.

I like that this melody is catchy and is sung and it has hash vocals with identifiable notes.

key:B tonic: f# tension: G and f#

notes: the singer has a lot of nuances in his singing that is hard to show in notation. there is also a fair bit of repetition in the melody.

My Second HookTheory Melody

  • I like how this melody sounds because the most of the notes are in a descending motion.
  • the notes that are used to built tension in Bb and the note used to release tension is F and E

What I Learned & Problems I Solved

  • learned the terms behind melody. the problems i solved were how to end my second melody with the melody not being too repetitive.

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Austin

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