Music GCSE
Melodic movement
What Melodic movement means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Melodic movement
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Motion from one note to the next, where a leap is movement to a note further than a tone or semitone from the previous note.
Topics that use Melodic movement
- 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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