Disjunct
What Disjunct means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Describes movement by leaps over one or more scale degrees, for example C up to G, and contrasts with conjunct motion.
The opposite of conjunct (or its synonym ‘stepwise’), where the melody jumps between notes that are not adjacent.
Topics that use Disjunct
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Organisation of pitch (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- 12-bar blues
- Aural identification
- Bass line
- Broken chord
- Chord sequences
- Conjunct
- Decoration versus structural change
- Elaboration of existing melodic material
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