10-671: [REDACTED] Look up melodi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melodi may refer to: Melody , a concept in music Melodi (musical ensemble) , a Serbian choir Melodi, a Malaysian television show hosted by Saiful Apek Melodi, a name in Bahasa Indonesia meaning "music" See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Melodi Melodia (disambiguation) Melody (disambiguation) Melodic (disambiguation) Melodie Topics referred to by
20-517: A wide variety of timbres and dynamics, the latter may still be an "element of linear ordering." Different musical styles use melody in different ways. For example: Melodic pattern In 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 with any scale . It is used primarily for solos because, when practiced enough, it can be extremely useful when improvising . "Sequence" refers to
30-428: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Melody A melody (from Greek μελῳδία (melōidía) 'singing, chanting'), also tune , voice , or line , is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm , while more figuratively,
40-671: Is not only a musical subject, but a manifestation of the musically subjective. It carries and radiates personality with as much clarity and poignancy as harmony and rhythm combined. As such a powerful tool of communication, melody serves not only as protagonist in its own drama, but as messenger from the author to the audience. Given the many and varied elements and styles of melody "many extant explanations [of melody] confine us to specific stylistic models, and they are too exclusive." Paul Narveson claimed in 1984 that more than three-quarters of melodic topics had not been explored thoroughly. The melodies existing in most European music written before
50-421: The diatonic scale was still used, the chromatic scale became "widely employed." Composers also allotted a structural role to "the qualitative dimensions" that previously had been "almost exclusively reserved for pitch and rhythm". Kliewer states, "The essential elements of any melody are duration, pitch, and quality ( timbre ), texture , and loudness. Though the same melody may be recognizable when played with
60-412: The 20th century, and popular music throughout the 20th century, featured "fixed and easily discernible frequency patterns ", recurring "events, often periodic, at all structural levels" and "recurrence of durations and patterns of durations". Melodies in the 20th century "utilized a greater variety of pitch resources than ha[d] been the custom in any other historical period of Western music ." While
70-420: The parts of harmony have as their ultimate purpose only beautiful melody. Therefore, the question of which is the more significant, melody or harmony, is futile. Beyond doubt, the means is subordinate to the end. The Norwegian composer Marcus Paus has argued: Melody is to music what a scent is to the senses: it jogs our memory. It gives face to form, and identity and character to the process and proceedings. It
80-502: The repetition of a part at a higher or lower pitch, and melodic sequence is differentiated from harmonic sequence . One example of melodic motive and sequence are the pitches of the first line, "Send her victorious," repeated, a step lower, in the second line, "Happy and glorious," from " God Save the Queen ". "A melodic pattern is just what the name implies: a melody with some sort of fixed pattern to it." "The strong theme or motive
90-409: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Melodi . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melodi&oldid=1259592543 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
100-673: The term can include other musical elements such as tonal color . It is the foreground to the background accompaniment . A line or part need not be a foreground melody. Melodies often consist of one or more musical phrases or motifs , and are usually repeated throughout a composition in various forms. Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominantly conjunct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence , and shape. Johann Philipp Kirnberger argued: The true goal of music—its proper enterprise—is melody. All
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