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Music - How to describe - MELODY
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- 1ChromaticRelating to or using notes that don't belong to the diatonic scale of the key the music is playing in
- 2ConjunctWhen the music is moving in steps
- 3DisjunctWhen the music is moving in leaps
- 4DiatonicOnly using the seven tones of a standard scale without any chromatic alterations
- 5PentatonicA scale consisting of five notes (most commonly 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th notes of the major diatonic scale)
- 6Semitonalan interval equal to a half tone in the standard diatonic scale
- 7Blues ScaleA different scale compared to the major scale, mainly used in jazz, blues songs
The third, fifth and the seventh notes are flattened. You only use the 1st ,3rd ,4th ,5th ,7th notes of the scale. - 8TriadicPlaying in triads (groups of three)
- 9AugmentedIncreasing the note values of the notes previously played
- 10DiminutionDecreasing the note values of the notes previously played
- 11Decorated (ornaments)Notes which are added to the main notes of a piece of music in order to make it interesting (can also be described as embellishment)
- 12TrillThe rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart
- 13MordentsA note played with a single rapid alternation of two tones
- 14Turnconsists of four or five notes, the principal notes a degree above and below it (it turns around the principal note)
- 15AppoggiaturaWhen a note is leaned on before playing the principal note, consists in suspending or delaying a note, taking part of its value
- 16AcciaccaturaPlayed as quickly as possible before the note that followers it
- 17NachschlagThe opposite of appoggiatura and consists of a short grace note played AFTER the principal note
- 18Shake/TrillA rapid alternation
- 19Anacrusisis the note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar
- 20IntervalsThe distance between two pitches
- 21Ascending ScaleWhen a scale is rising in pitch
- 22Passing notesa non harmonic note played that leads from one harmonic note to the next
- 23Notes of anticipationintroduction on the weak beat of one note of a new chord before the previous chord is resolved
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