The melody is what makes a song unique to where you can recognize it if you hear someone hymn or whistle it. Now there are some songs that share the same melody, but the range of the pitches go up and down make it easily separate to be identified. The units that form the melody are the phrases that end for resting is known as the cadences. Usually one the melody get to an intensity that is the peak this is the climax.
Moving the music forward is the rhythm, with the beat being the pulse that divides the time into equal segments within the measure. While the measures holds a set number of beats the downbeat is more than often the strongest beat in the measures. Relating to the music of today which is often set in duple meter (an ONE-two ,ONE-two) beat. These beat and rhythmic tones have been greatly inspired by the African American and Latin American traditions.
While combining the sounds together harmony is created with the vertical pitches of notes which forms chord as three or more notes come together. Showing the progression through one chord to the next the feeling, order, and the unity displays the organization of the harmony. Now melody and harmony cannot function without one another. Going forward the melody suggests the harmony that goes alone with it, and constantly will influence the …show more content…
Using octave notes are established. An octave is the interval spanning across eight notes of a scale. An octave is divided into twelve half steps, making two halves one whole. There are four major scales chromatic, diatonic, and major and minor scales. The chromatic scale is made up of all twelve steps, but the diatonic scale contains seven whole and half steps, with the melody and harmony rooted in the key. The key as looked as building element form of tonic, dominant, and subdominant unfolding the foundations over melodies and harmonic