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This document provides an overview of important musical terms related to melody that students should know for the GCSE Music exam. It includes definitions of terms like anacrusis, sequence, leitmotif, ornamentation, and intervals. It also presents two short musical excerpts and questions to test the student's understanding of melodic concepts like contour, devices, and tonality.

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Melody Listening Eduqas

This document provides an overview of important musical terms related to melody that students should know for the GCSE Music exam. It includes definitions of terms like anacrusis, sequence, leitmotif, ornamentation, and intervals. It also presents two short musical excerpts and questions to test the student's understanding of melodic concepts like contour, devices, and tonality.

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Melody

Section 1: Focus on MELODY


Across the four areas of study, these are the ‘must-know’ musical terms for MELODY:

Anacrusis Sequence Leitmotif/motif Ornamentation/


decoration

Conjunct (stepwise) Imitation Chromatic movement Countermelody

Disjunct (angular) Repetition Pentatonic Answering phrase

Arpeggio Contrast Blue notes Thematic


(broken chord)

Scalic (ascending + Range Intervals: Fanfare


descending (Low/high pitch) microtone;
semitone;
tone/major 2nd;
major 3rd;
perfect 4th;
perfect 5th;
major 6th
major 7th;
octave

GCSE Music | Melody


Melody

Area of Study 1: Musical Forms and Devices

1. You will hear the opening of a keyboard sonata by Handel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F8xpdgDal8 [from start to 0’26”]
An outline score of the extract (treble clef only) is printed below.

I. Tick the two musical terms that best describe the shape of the melody in bar 1. [2]

Term Tick
Conjunct
Disjunct
Ascending
Descending
Pentatonic

II. Give the name of a melodic device used in bars 2 and 3. [1]

III.

i. State the term that best describes the shape of the melody in bar 4. [1]

ii. Underline the name of the interval featured in bar 4. [1]

2nd 3rd 4th 5th

iii. Give the name of a melodic device used in bars 42 – 62 in the right-hand part
(i.e. the treble clef part). [Bar 42 means bar 4, beat 2; Bar 61 means bar 6, beat 2] [1]

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Melody

IV. Give one word that describes the melody in bar 12. [1]

V. Give the name of the melodic device used in bars 13 and 14.
(You must offer a different answer than the one given in (ii) above.) [1]

• Suggest a tempo marking for this extract.


• Is the tonality major, minor, or modal?
• Is this type of time signature known as SIMPLE DUPLE, SIMPLE TRIPLE OR SIMPLE QUADRUPLE?
• Find out whether Handel was a composer from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic or Modern eras.
• What instrument would have been used for the original performance of this piece? Listen to another
recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITqRbBUNMNg

2. The following extract is from the opening of a piece known as ‘The Hebrides Overture’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAXyj1dy-PE [from start to 0’52”]

I. This short extract is based on a distinctive melodic pattern.


Tick what you believe to be the correct notation of the pattern the first time it is heard. [1]

II. Underline the correct term for this pattern. [1]

Microtone Motif Modulation Middle 8

III. Underline the melodic device heard in the opening part of the extract. [1]

Scalic Stepwise Staccato Sequence

IV. Describe how the melodic material is contrasted in the second part of the extract (23” – 52”) [2]

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Melody

*Try not to just guess the answer in a multiple-choice question. Make sure that you know what all the
melodic terms mean.
*As you answer question (IV), focus on what changes in melody have been made in the second part
of the extract; this will ensure that you get marks for answering the question set, and you don’t provide
information that is unnecessary.

For consideration: Do you know what an ‘OVERTURE’ is?


Research: Find out who composed this piece. When was it composed?
Make a note of whether the style of the music is Baroque, Classical, Romantic or Modern.

GCSE Music | Melody

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