Melodics
Encyclopedia
Melodics is the features of melody
that are characteristic for a particular style
, period
, or group of composer
s, e.g. baroque melodics, the melodics of Frederic Chopin
's compositions. Melodics is an element of a musical work which orders the sequence of sounds of different registers and duration time.
The two basic kinds of melodics – vocal and instrumental – are combined with the main executive means. The rest derive directly from the two above and reciprocally diffuse one another.
Obviously in vocal music, besides canticle melodics, figurative and ornamental ones are also encountered, but its performance requires from the singer numerous exercises as the human hearing apparatus is technically confined. What concerns instrumental music - there appear not only typical for it figurative melodics, but also canticle and ornamental melodics.
On account of the direction of the play we distinguish following kinds of melodics:
Beyond these we have also:
On account of the kind of singing we can distinguish following melodics:
Melody
A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity...
that are characteristic for a particular style
Music genre
A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...
, period
Period
Period may mean a full stop: a punctuation in American-English.Period or periodic may also refer to:-Science:* Orbital period, a concept in astronomy...
, or group of composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
s, e.g. baroque melodics, the melodics of Frederic Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
's compositions. Melodics is an element of a musical work which orders the sequence of sounds of different registers and duration time.
The two basic kinds of melodics – vocal and instrumental – are combined with the main executive means. The rest derive directly from the two above and reciprocally diffuse one another.
Kinds of melodics
- Vocal
- Canticle
- Ornamental
- Instrumental
- Figurative
Obviously in vocal music, besides canticle melodics, figurative and ornamental ones are also encountered, but its performance requires from the singer numerous exercises as the human hearing apparatus is technically confined. What concerns instrumental music - there appear not only typical for it figurative melodics, but also canticle and ornamental melodics.
On account of the direction of the play we distinguish following kinds of melodics:
- ascending – melody elaborates to the top,
- descending – melody elaborates to the bottom,
- arched – melody ascends and descends (or inversely),
- waving – melody ascends and descends in turns many times,
- based on a continual sound (tremoloTremoloTremolo, or tremolando, is a musical term that describes various trembling effects, falling roughly into two types. The first is a rapid reiteration...
).
Beyond these we have also:
- diatonic – agitates on given sounds for a specific scale
- chromatic – implementation of chromatic signs, appear sounds that are extraneous for the scale
On account of the kind of singing we can distinguish following melodics:
- syllabic - one sound falls to one syllableSyllableA syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds. For example, the word water is composed of two syllables: wa and ter. A syllable is typically made up of a syllable nucleus with optional initial and final margins .Syllables are often considered the phonological "building...
- ornamental – few sounds fall to one syllable; most often it is connected with figurative or canticle melodics
- recitative – musical recitationRecitationA recitation is a presentation made by a student to demonstrate knowledge of a subject or to provide instruction to others. In some academic institutions the term is used for a presentation by a teaching assistant or instructor, under the guidance of a senior faculty member, that supplements...
(melorecitation).