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Elements of Music Pitch - Melody ▫ Pitch refers to the actual notes used in the music. ▫ The patterns of pitch are often called the musical line – or melody. ▫ The melody of a song is considered to be the pleasing series of musical notes that form the main part of a song or piece of music. Musical line… ▫ To figure out the musical line you need to think about the direction of the pitches and how many are being used … ▫ Which gives us the two ways to talk about musical line and more specifically the melody – range and contour. Range • The range of a piece is the distance between the lowest and highest notes. • A piece that has a narrow range is one in which the melody centers around a few given notes. • A piece that has a wide range takes the musician or singer from low to high pitches. Example 1: Mary Had a Little Lamb Example 2: Yesterday Choose a range for this song: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlcIKh6sBtc Contour • The contour is the shape of the musical line. • Usually, there is only one highest or lowest note, called the peak. Although there is an endless number of variations, there are several basic contours that melodic lines generally follow… Arch • An arch begins lower, works its way up to a high point between around or just after the midpoint of the melody, then falls back to a lower ending note. Inverted Arch • An Inverted Arch contour simply flips the arch shape upside-down, with the lowest peak occurring only once. Ramp • Ramp - Melodies often save the high or low peak for the last note. There are two types to choose from: • An ascending ramp begins at or near the lowest note, and gradually works its way up to the highest. • A descending ramp contour reverses this, beginning with the higher point, and ending with the lowest. Listening examples: • “For Good” Glee Cast Version • “Take Five” The Swingfield Quartet