Melodics is the features of
melody
A melody (from Greek language, Greek μελῳδία, ''melōidía'', "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice or line, is a Linearity#Music, linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most liter ...
that are characteristic for a particular
style,
period, or group of
composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music.
Etymology and Defi ...
s, e.g. baroque melodics, the melodics of
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...
'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
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Canticle
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*Instrumental
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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 (
tremolo
In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are two types of tremolo.
The first is a rapid reiteration:
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).
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
syllable
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*ornamental – few sounds fall to one syllable; most often it is connected with figurative or canticle melodics
*recitative – musical
recitation (
melorecitation).
Bibliography
*Danuta Wójcik, ''Learning about music'',
Musica Iagellonica, Kraków, 2006
*Danuta Wójcik, ''ABC of musical form'',
Musica Iagellonica, Kraków, 1999
*Franciszek Wesołowski, ''Rules of music'',
PWM, Kraków, 2008 {{ISBN, 978-83-224-0461-4
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