Melodic Devices

What is Call and Response?

• A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

• The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.

• A chord broken into a sequence of notes.

• When the melody is flipped upside down.

What is this an example of?

• Conjunct

• Arpeggio

• Chromatic

• Augmentation

What is a Melodic Inversion?

• A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

• The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.

• A chord broken into a sequence of notes.

• When the melody is flipped upside down.

What is this an example of?

• Conjunct

• Arpeggio

• Chromatic

• Augmentation

What is Disjunct?

• A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

• The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.

• A chord broken into a sequence of notes.

• When the melody is flipped upside down.

What is this an example of?

• Conjunct

• Arpeggio

• Chromatic

• Augmentation

What is an Arpeggio?

• A succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

• The melodic phrase leaps upwards or downwards; this movement is greater than a whole tone.

• A chord broken into a sequence of notes.

• When the melody is flipped upside down.

What is this an example of?

• Conjunct

• Arpeggio

• Chromatic

• Augmentation

Which is an example of a sequence?

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What melodic device is used here?

• Inversion

• Imitation

• Diatonic

• Call and Response