Music GCSE
Leaping
What Leaping means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Leaping
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Another name for disjunct motion, where the melody jumps between notes that are not adjacent, for example C up to G or D down to A.
Topics that use Leaping
- 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
- Disjunct
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