UNIT 4 MELODY

UNIT 4 MELODY

1. What is melody?

   • A MELODY is a series of notes of different pitches that expresses a musical idea
     • The notes that make up a melody come for SCALE
       • The melody is the most MEMORABLE part of a song.
       • MAJOR scale (7 notes) MINOR scale (7 notes) CHROMATIC scale (12 notes) PENTATONIC scale (5 notes)

2. Melodies can be classified

   • by
     • DESIGN
       • it is the from of the melody line
     • REGISTER
       • high pitched
       • low pitched
     • STRUCTURE
       • a,a a,b ...
     • RANGE
       • it's the distance from the lower note to the highest one