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Melody
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Line or tune in music
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Contour
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What makes melody unique, how it moves up and down in pitches
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Range
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Span of pitches in a melody
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Interval
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Distance between any two pitches in a melody
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Conjunct / disjunct
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Conjunct - melody that moves in small intervals,
disjunct - melody that moves in leaps |
Phrases
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Units that make up a melody
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Cadences
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Resting places where phrases end
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Countermelody
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Secondary melody
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Rhythm
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What makes move forward in time
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Meter
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Marked off in measures, organizes the beats in music
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Beat
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Basic unit of rythm
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Downbeat
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The first accented beat of each pattern
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Duplemeter, triple meter, quadruple meter
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Alternates a strong down beat with a weak beat, three beats to a measre - one strong beat and two weak ones, four beats to a measure - primary measure on the first beat and a secondary measure on the third
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Simple meters
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Meter has doule subdivisions
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Compound meters
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Some patterns the beat is divided into three, sextouplemeter
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