The melodic line is a string of catatan played together that make-up the melody

The melody is the most basic element of music. It is the part of the song that sounds the most important, and catches your ear. Often, the melody is sung by a vocalist, or played by a solo instrumen.

The melodic line is a string of catatan played together that make-up the melody.

Ekstra catatan, such as trills or grace catatan are not part of the melodic line but are added as ornamens or embellishments.
Shape or Contour of Melody

If we just played the same catatan over and over music would be very boring. As the music progresses, the melody rises and falls, slowly or quickly. This creates a visible shape on the page.

We can see that the shape of this melody rises with the catatan on the staf, and then slightly falls, creating an arch shape.

Words that we can use to describe the direction or shape of a melody are: rising or ascending, falling or descending, or an arch-shaped frase.

Melodic Motion

Another set of terms we can use to describe the melody are those that refer to the distance between each catatan.

When the catatan are close together:

A melody that rises or falls gradually with only small changes in pitch between note is called conjunct motion. When the catatan are only a semitone or a tone away from one another, it is moving in step-wise or scalar motion.

When the note are farther apart:

When the catatan in the melody ascend and descend quickly, with large spaces between the note, we call this disjunct motion. We refer to these distances as "jumps" or "leaps"

READ: Phet Proyekile Motion Lab: Lab AnswersMany melodies have a mixture of conjunct and disjunct motion.

Melodic Frases

Melodies are often described as being made up of frases. This is actually quite similar to a grammatical frase.

A frase in a sentence (for example, "into the deep, dark forest" or "under that heavy book") is a kelompok of words that make sense together and cepat a definite idea, but the frase is not a complete sentence by itself. 

A melodic frase is a grup of note that make sense together and ekspress a definite melodic "idea", but it takes more than one frase to make a complete melody.

Composers will maintain interest in their piece by varying how strongly the end of the frase sounds like "the end" of the piece. By varying the rhythm and the harmony in a frase, the composer can create a stronger or weaker ‘end' sound.

Often, frases come in definite pairs, where the first frase is like a question, and the second frase is the answer to that question. This sounds like a call-response. The first frase is called the antecedent, and the second, answering frase is called the consequent.

Cite this article as: William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Kubu), "Melody: Contour, Motion, Frase," in SchoolWorkHelper, 2021, https://schoolworkhelper.net/melody-contour-motion-phrase/. 
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