Most people can hum a variety of melodies from tunes learned in childhood such as Mary Had a Little Lamb to Christmas songs to famous classical melodies such as Beethovens Ode to Joy to the melody of the current hot songs on the Top 40.

Example of melodic direction. Motion by step or stepwise motion is when a melody moves by consectective notes in the scale. Opposite palusong melodiya melodic line one direction isang direksyon. Melodic lines can move in a few different ways.

Melodic contour is overall shape of the line that your melody traces as it moves up and down. In a conjunct melodic motion the melodic phrase moves in a stepwise fashion. Direction melodies use more different notes and dont have a clear base pitch.

When the notes are close together. For example in the music John Williams composed for the Star Wars movies there are melodic themes that are associated with the main characters. Often the phrases in a melody will run into each other cut each other short or overlap.

On the musical staff a melodic second goes either up or down from a line to the next space or a space to the next line. This may be described as conjunct or disjunct stepwise skipwise or no movement respectively. With older students you may want to introduce the concepts of conjunct and disjunct motion as well as melodic phrases and other lines that can be drawn by a visual representation.

Melodic motion is the quality of movement of a melody including nearness or farness of successive pitches or notes in a melody. What are some examples of melody in music. We will look at songs with a flat melodic contour this is.

In songwriting you can only ever speak of generalizations. That is the subsequent notes move up or down a semitone or tone but no greater. We know for example that most verse melodies tend to avoid an overabundant.