Organisation of pitch
What Organisation of pitch means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
A compositional method applying to a single melodic line rather than to the complete texture, for example melodic sequence.
The musical vocabulary section under which the extended sustaining or repeating of a note or harmonic interval is listed.
The musical vocabulary section under which a melody, a succession of single sounds, is described.
The section of musical vocabulary under which the distance between two notes is described.
The musical vocabulary section covering melodic movement, intervals and step versus leap.
The section of the musical vocabulary glossary in which the term subject is defined.
Topics that use Organisation of pitch
- 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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