music and jazz improvisation, a melodic pattern (or motive) is a cell or germ serving as the basis for repetitive pattern. It is a figure that can be used...
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The millennial whoop is a vocal melodic pattern alternating between the fifth note — the dominant —and the third note — the mediant — in a major scale...
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Nicolas Slonimsky (redirect from Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns)
writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical...
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features a similarly constructed ostinato pattern, but this time 5 bars long. Over this, the main melodic line moves freely, varying the phrase-lengths...
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monotony of the arpeggiated accompaniment, by the repetitiveness of the melodic pattern, and by the strophic form itself." 1. Beautiful dreamer, wake unto...
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Sequence (music) (section Melodic sequences)
In music, a sequence is the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice. It is one of...
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or rock music, a lick is "a stock pattern or phrase" consisting of a short series of notes used in solos and melodic lines and accompaniment. For musicians...
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Couperin) deliberately mixed the two genres in the same composition. The melodic pattern—usually four, six or eight (rarely seven) bars long—repeats without...
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rhythmic pattern, called a talea, in at least one voice part throughout a composition. Taleae are typically applied to one or more melodic patterns of pitches...
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The Melodic Blue is the debut studio album by the American rapper and record producer Baby Keem. It was released on September 10, 2021, by PGLang and...
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blues piano playing characterized by an up-tempo rhythm, a repeated melodic pattern in the bass, and a series of improvised variations in the treble. Boogie...
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Landini cadence on E, characterized by contrary motion in the outer voices & characteristic melodic pattern in the top voice. Play...
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band Jam session Jazz chord So What Jazz improvisation Lead sheet Melodic pattern Outside Polyrhythm Rhythm changes Scale Swing Syncopation Turnaround...
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to Fusiform Gyrus)" is fourth on Self-ish, which uses a swing-punk melodic pattern. It was later included in "Weird Al" Yankovic's 2024 summer playlist...
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Jazz minor scale (redirect from Ascending melodic minor)
The jazz minor scale or ascending melodic minor scale is a derivative of the melodic minor scale, except only the ascending form of the scale is used....
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Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional...
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neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. Pattern recognition...
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Minor scale (redirect from Melodic minor)
scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending)...
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single line of melodic pattern, following a pattern similar to the siter. The gendèr barung plays a slower, but more complex melodic pattern that includes...
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Melody type (redirect from Melodic type)
Melody type or type-melody is a set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns. "Melody type" is a fundamental notion for understanding a nature of Western...
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Allegro of the first movement: its melodic pattern is identical for its first four notes, and its rhythmic pattern for the first eight. There is also...
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scale originated in Nicolas Slonimsky's book Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns through the "equal division of one octave into two parts," creating...
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less than a semitone. Music portal List of musical scales and modes Melodic pattern Pitch circularity Shepard tone Denyer, Ralph (30 November 1982). The...
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seems too short to be relatively independent". Period (music) Strophe Melodic pattern Lick (music) White 1976, p. 44. Benjamin, Thomas; Horvit, Michael;...
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Modal frame (redirect from Melodic mode)
the 'symmetrical' minor third of the tonic (E♭) – is a common pattern in blues." Melodic motion Tune-family van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the...
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PMID 1162325. Deutsch, D. (1979). "Binaural integration of melodic patterns". Perception & Psychophysics. 25 (5): 399–405. doi:10.3758/BF03199848...
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canon.[citation needed] Because the irmos presents a rhythmic and melodic pattern for the troparia which follow, "irmos" gives its name to the irmologic...
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Steps". An analysis of Coltrane's solo reveals that he worked out melodic patterns over the changes in advance, which he deployed during his recorded...
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is heard in rock songs such as "Runaway" by Del Shannon. A popular melodic pattern of Ancient Greece offers a possible starting point for the Andalusian...
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