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    A melody ("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, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody).

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    A melody ("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, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody).

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    Characteristics of Melody (HUMANITIES)

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    A melody ("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, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part need not be a foreground melody(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody).

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    Characteristics of Melody:

    Dimension, Progression, Direction, and Register


    Licao, Bryan
    Dimension
    (1) Length and (2) Range
    Many melodies are neither extremely short nor
    usually long .

    The length of the melody is relative to the


    number of measure which composes it.

    The range of the melody is the pitch distance


    from its lowest to its highest tone.
    Register

    The relative highness or lowness of the aggregate


    tones of a melody.
    Direction

    Upwards and Downwards.

    Melody may moves rapidly or gradually,


    ascending or descending.

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