* Ground bass, in music, a bass part that continually repeats, while the melody and harmony over it change

Note well that a guajeo is the typical Cuban / Afro-Cuban ostinato melody, a motif or phrase which is continually repeated in the same musical voice, usually consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.

#: The fourth movement begins with a very quiet, searching melody in the strings that slowly rises in pitch.

Nearing the end of the peaceful work, the Introduction's solo violin melody serenades the final few bars before the waltz rises to a forte and ends on a brilliant note, underlined with a timpani drumroll.

In the third section, the sopranos repeat the melody in a fugue, while the altos simultaneously sing a countersubject that rises in fast movement for more than an octave, illustrating the resurrection.

In the chorus of Up Where We Belong, the melody rises during the words " Love lift us up where we belong.

Early epic poetry was also accompanied by music, and pitch changes associated with the accented Greek must have highlighted the melody, though the exact mechanism is still a topic of discussion.

By this time Brown's vocals frequently took the form of a kind of rhythmic declamation, not quite sung but not quite spoken, that only intermittently featured traces of pitch or melody.

Its common elements are pitch ( which governs melody and harmony ), rhythm ( and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation ), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture.

The game keeps track of the moods of the Nightopians ( harming them will displease them, for example ), and the game features an evolving music engine, allowing tempo, pitch, and melody to alter depending on the state of Nightopians within the level.

Another way to shift pitch and stretch time is to separate phase and time in a monophonic sound such as the ones of melody instruments.

These include but are not limited to: pitch, beat or pulse, rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, allocation of voices, timbre or color, expressive qualities ( dynamics and articulation ), and form or structure.

Because of tone quality issues, some C ( concert pitch ) instruments — the C melody saxophone, C soprano saxophone, and C soprano clarinet, for example — have declined in popularity in favor of the standard versions ( B soprano and tenor saxophone ; B and A clarinets ).

The name mel comes from the word melody to indicate that the scale is based on pitch comparisons.

In polyphonic compositions of the 14th and early 15th centuries, the contratenor was a voice part added to the basic two-part contrapuntal texture of discant ( superius ) and tenor ( from the Latin tenere which means to hold, since this part " held " the music's melody, while the superius descanted upon it at a higher pitch ).

Most hurdy gurdies have multiple drone strings, which give a constant pitch accompaniment to the melody, resulting in a sound similar to that of bagpipes.

Alternatively, the same skill which allows someone to hear a melody for the first time and name the notes relative to some known reference pitch.

Tuning configurations may change depending on the player's style ; a player playing as a lead instrument will choose an overall higher pitch tuning, with more separation or overlap between the melody and bass courses.

Other features may be employed to represent the chords, harmonies, melody, main pitch, beats per minute or rhythm in the piece.

Since the function of pitch classes is a key element, the problem of compound intervals with interval recognition is not an issue — whether the notes in a melody are played within a single octave or over many octaves is irrelevant.

Patterns of pitch and duration are of primary importance in common practice melody, while tone quality is of secondary importance.

Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words.

The melody of Hakka Hill Songs tend to have higher pitch so the sound can travel farther.

Some ensembles have a high pitch flute called a suling that also plays the melody.

It consists of an order of durations or rhythms, called a talea (" cutting ", plural taleae ), which is repeated within a tenor melody whose pitch content or series, called the color ( repetition ), varied in the number of members from the talea.

In music, a register is the relative " height " or range of a note, set of pitches or pitch classes, melody, part, instrument or group of instruments.

Accompaniment is heterophonic – the jinghu player follows the basic contours of the song's melody, but diverges in pitch and other elements.

The xalam usually has two main melody strings that are fingered by the left hand ( like the strings of a guitar or banjo ) and two to three supplementary strings of fixed pitch.

Nyok cok is an ornamentation of the pokok melody in which polos and sangsih anticipate the next pitch of the pokok in unison and then each plays one of its neighbor tones.

The rowdy crowd chilled into stillness and the fluent melody spiraled through it.

When the air blew through the reeds, it produced a plaintive melody.

After the full eight cycles have gone through, the first pianist fades out, leaving one 8 note melody playing.

Indian classical music ( marga ) is monophonic, and based on a single melody line or raga rhythmically organized through talas.

It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tamboura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Lennon, and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played by McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding " not unlike a celeste ".

In contrast, sadcore emphasized pain and suffering through melodic use of acoustic and electronic instrumentation in the music of bands like American Music Club and Red House Painters, while the revival of Baroque pop reacted against lo-fi and experimental music by placing an emphasis on melody and classical instrumentation, with artists like Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian and Rufus Wainwright.

" He also notes that " when Calloway begins singing in his characteristic style – in which the words are tools for exploring rhythm and stretching melody – it becomes clear that American culture is changing around Jolson and with ( and through ) Calloway.

Standard output is 2 channel, through a TRS 1 / 4 " connector, with bass and melody courses output separately.

The underlying pulse is provided by the cello and piano: the cello cycles through the same five-note melody ( utilizing the pitches C, E, D, F-sharp, B-flat ) over a repeating pattern of fifteen durations.

Known simply as " Trolley ", it communicates through the uses of its whistle and bell and occasionally moves backwards and forwards to get the other characters ' attention or to show that he is getting impatient, and a musical melody is usually heard every time the Trolley moves through its tracks.

* Peachnote — A melody search engine and n-gram viewer that searches through digitized music scores

The only modifiers that are consistently marked for restrictiveness are relative clauses: non-restrictive ones are set off in writing by using commas, and in speech through intonation ( with a pause beforehand and an uninterrupted melody ), while restrictive ones are not.

The verse opens strongly anchored on " Here " in the key of G ( with simultaneous I ( G chord ) and melody G note ) and moves equally predictably to a I-ii-iii-IV chord shift ( G-Am-Bm-C ) through " making each day of the year ".

Jump-Up is closely related to the more popular 1996 – 1997 era of jungle-drum and bass, known for its ' warmth ’ through beat and melody syncopation and simpler heavy basslines ( as opposed to the lighter, more distorted basslines of the precise-sounding techier styles of Neurofunk & Techstep coming out around this time ).

No section of Ary Barroso's 1939 samba " Brazil " repeats ; however, a second set of lyrics in Portuguese allows the melody to be sung through twice.

The prelude maintains a suspended feel through repeated, arpeggiated chords in the right hand played to accompany a simple melody first in the left hand, then swapping roles midway.

:' His bravura pieces, fantasies on melodies from Rossini's Mosè and La donna del lago, on motifs from Bellini's Norma and on Russian folk-songs, became extraordinarily popular through his own, brilliant execution ; however, they treat their subjects always in one and the same way, [...] to let the tones of a melody be played in the medium octave of the keyboard now by the thumb of the right, now of the left hand, while the rest of the fingers are executing arpeggios filling the whole range of the keyboard '.

This is signified by a 2-measure long lyrical melody first stated in the viola, then passing through the cello and second violin, then cello again.

There are melody keys on the other reed and the main melody is played through them

Halfway through, the piece moves on to the second episode ( part C ), where the beautiful melody is replaced with a turbulent, agitated and ominous theme in the relative minor key of G minor, which greatly contrasts the peaceful mood at the starting of the movement.

The slow third movement starts and ends with a lyrical melody, and one theme runs through the entire movement.

However, Ravel's neoclassicism shines through with his pointedly twentieth-century chromatic melody and piquant harmonies.