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	Melody - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melodies may also be described by their melodic motion or the pitches or the intervals between pitches (predominately conjuct or disjunct or with further restrictions), pitch range, tension and release, continuity and coherence, cadence, and shape (ibid, p.290-301).
		Rock music, melodic music, and other forms of popular music and folk music tend to pick one or two melodies (verse and chorus) and stick with them; much variety may occur in the phrasing and lyrics.
		Often melodies are constructed from motifs or short melodic fragments, such as the opening of Beethoven's Ninth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melody (619 words)

	Rough Edge: Melodic Meltdown CD Reviews
		Michael's latest project is in the form of a band, Melodic Meltdown, and their new CD proves once again why Michael Søbygge is one of the premier metal guitarists in today's heavy music scene.
		But surprisingly enough, while the six-string talent of Sobygge shines through at all times, Melodic Meltdown is a band that has written some taut hard rock songs that don't forget that the song is king and technical flashes, while they have their place, are usually best left to brief and complementary flourishes.
		Melodic Meltdown are likely to have their greatest success in Europe and South America where this style still sells records.
	www.roughedge.com /cdreviews/m/melodicmeltdown.htm (791 words)

	internalizing melodic colors
		When soloing, strong improvisers will substitute this color into their chordal and melodic ideas, whether written or not, to create a greater sense of energy and forward motion in their lines.
		A second approach for these melodic minor substitutions is to resolve each of the potential resolutions of the above concept to the four keys as done with the diminished group.
		When employing the major scale to create melodic lines, these lines are said to be diatonically or modally generated.
	jacmuse.com /improv/melodicapps/newpage19.htm (4441 words)

	melodic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Melodic Today is the third compilation album in the same amount of years to come from one of the most exciting and innovative labels in the UK today.
		Melodic's roster includes the likes of Pedro, L Pierre, Baikonour, Topo Gigio and Wren as well as a few other aces up it's sleeve (including the debut single by this year's brand new indie darlings, the Nine Black Alps which came out last year).
		Where, in the past, Melodic has given us some of the most beautiful instrumental music around, the label's roster is widening in breadth and also vocal talent which ends up with a compilation more eclectic than ever and a 50-50 split of vocal and instrumental pieces.
	www.melodic.co.uk /index_fr.html?/audio.htm (371 words)

	Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Melodic Minor Harmony
		In A melodic minor, a lydian augmented scale is built on C and consists of "C, D, E, F#, G#, A, B".
		In A melodic minor, a lydian dominant scale is built on D and consists of "D, E, F#, G#, A, B, C".
		The seventh mode of the melodic minor scale is often called the diminished whole tone scale, because it combines elements of the diminished and whole tone scales discussed later.
	outsideshore.com /primer/primer/ms-primer-4-3.html (1641 words)

	The Melodic Scales
		The melodic scale above has two triads which are capable of functioning as tonics: c minor and G major, so these are the tonics of the two tonally effective modes of the melodic scale - the (ascending) melodic minor scale and the (descending) melodic major scale.
		Both of these scales can be understood to be melodic "improvements" of the harmonic minor and harmonic major scales respectively, although the strength of the tonic in both these melodic scales is weaker than in their harmonic counterparts.
		In the melodic minor scale the 6th and 7th degrees of the diatonic aeolian mode are sharpened, in the melodic major scale the 6th and 7th degrees of the diatonic major scale are flattened.
	www.andymilne.dial.pipex.com /Melodic.shtml (744 words)

	The Melodic form of Polish Ballads
		To conclude, melodic climax is said to be a significant characteristics of the melodic style of songs.
		As far as the frequency of climaxes is concerned the preference for the 2nd, 5th, and 8th step of the scale results from the melodic course for the steps correspond with the centers of melodic verses.
		The melodic line of verses is most often sinuous, less frequent are various types of arcs, whereas the least common are straight lines (shaped similarly to the scale).
	www.sibetrans.com /trans/trans5/jerzy.htm (2060 words)

	Steve Baughman - Melodic Expression
		Melodic expression, or "non-linear" playing, is primarily an alternate tunings endeavor in which the player tries to avoid using the same melody string twice in a row, instead finding each subsequent melody note on a different string.
		The term "melodic," used in this context, comes from the five-string banjo world and refers to the exciting discovery made in the early 1960's that bluegrass banjo players could depart from strict arpeggiated "Scruggs" style picking and actually play fiddle tunes note for note.
		Melodic playing is as useful as it is underutilized in Celtic guitar.
	www.celticguitar.com /melody.html (593 words)

	Huron's Review of Z. Eitan's "Highpoints: A Study of Melodic Peaks"
		Since music theorists have not posited a role for melodic low points comparable to the presumed role of high points, this choice of control pitches ought to highlight those differences that are due to musical goals rather than artifacts of the pitch distribution.
		A better way of testing whether melodic peak points tend to be approached by larger or smaller intervals is by randomly rearranging the order of the notes in a melody and determining whether the antecedent and consequent intervals surrounding peak pitches are now larger or smaller.
		The larger melodic intervals surrounding peak pitches seems to be little more than an artifact of the fact that peak pitches are simply further away from the majority of other pitches in the melody.
	dactyl.som.ohio-state.edu /Huron/Publications/huron.Eitan.review.html (3060 words)

	Banjo Hangout Discussion Forums ARCHIVE - Easy melodic style tunes....... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It really depends on the arrangement, but any melodic arrangement that doesn't have a lot of multiple fret reaches and follows the melody closely should be very doable.
		I agree with Banjoman on the Banjo in the Hollow.
		I like the melodic tunes but everything is so foreign that i have to learn the whole song from scratch and it seems to take forever.
	www.banjohangout.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26085 (704 words)

	The Diatonic Harp Reference: Improvising Using Rhythm
		The result is a sense of "variation on a theme" familiarity (where the theme is the melodic rhythm statement rather than (necessarily) a melodic (note-values plus pitches) one).
		When a melodic rhythm note-value phrase has been established, it can later be improvised off of, again, rhythmically, where the pitch of the notes has less importance, over and over, with variations.
		This attention to melodic rhythm patterns is also useful as a "rut-busting" exercise.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/myquill/ImprovMelthm.html (541 words)

	JAZCLASS - Jazz scales lesson : Melodic minor scale in all Keys
		The key signature for the melodic minor scale is the same as its related major scale which has its its tonic note 3 semitones above.
		For example the C melodic minor scale is related to the Eb major scale, and shares that scale's key signature (3 flats).
		The melodic minor scale was (like the harmonic minor scale) originally derived from the natural minor scale, by raising its 6th and 7th note.
	www.jazclass.aust.com /scales/scamelm.htm (652 words)

	Banjo Hangout Discussion Forums - Melodic Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ron Block commented one time that he listened to some old recordings of his when he was heavily into his melodic phase and thought it was the most terrible crap he had ever heard.
		I'm trying to learn melodic style, and ultimately hope to develop my own sense of taste, but until then I'd like to learn more about what is considered tasteful to others.
		What I refer to was when people would learn a melodic tune, usually a fiddle tune played on the banjo, then turn around and throw the same chromatic licks in just about every song they play.
	www.banjohangout.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26674 (1060 words)

	ASA/EAA/DAGA '99 - Motor Theory of Melodic Expectancy
		There are patterns of melodic motion (i.e., how a melody proceeds from note to note) that appear to transcend many musical styles.
		We submit that the origin of the principles and by extension the common melodic patterns may be vocal constraint.
		All three explanations for the influence of vocal constraints on melodic expectancies hinge on the assumption that vocal accuracy is consistent with melodic expectancy.
	www.acoustics.org /press/137th/russo.html (1042 words)

	Sacramentum - Melodic "Heavy Metal Style" Death/Black Metal
		To incorporate a distributed structure Sacramentum bend their melodies into visions of a changing beast through a language of high-speed, intensely melodic, violent and atonal riffs producing through their collective interpretation a vision of ephemeral affinity vanishing in the distintegration of tone, a worldscape of violent self-recreation.
		Cleft phrases and neatly tucked melodic couplings sustain the interiors of songs carrying a weight of transitional phrasing and extensive solos which borrow from neoclassical traditions in a blues context.
		While this work drops out of any specific genre to become the dreaded Swedish melodic metal, its essential values of extremity and beauty are still expressed, although in something closer to what most listeners can handle than the glorious excesses of emotion and technicality that were past albums.
	www.anus.com /metal/sacramentum.html (1073 words)

	Encyclopedia of Organ Stops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Melodic Coupler was first adapted to the organ by Mr.
		Thomas Casson, whose “Positive” organs (of the larger pattern) normally possess a double bass stop acting from the lowest note struck, and also a melodic stop reinforcing the treble note.
		Melodic Diapason 8', Choir; City Hall, Hull, England; FOrster & Andrews 1911.
	www.organstops.org /m/Melodic.html (327 words)

	Melodic Minor Scale
		Looking at the numbers, we can deduce that the melodic minor scale is a minor scale (not THE minor scale everyone talks about - that would be the aeolian mode, but a minor scale none-the-less).
		So we could view the melodic minor scale as an aeolian scale with a major seventh (a major sixth in the place of a minor sixth, and a major seventh in place of a minor seventh).We also note that it is very similar to THE dorian mode/scale.
		So we could view the melodic minor scale as an dorian scale with a major seventh (a major seventh in place of a minor seventh).
	members.aol.com /snglstringtheory/archive/jan9.html (1253 words)

	Melodic Minor Modes - Gordon Au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In jazz, the melodic minor scale is simply a major scale with a minor third.
		(Although in classical music the melodic minor scale changes when played up or down, it is always the same in jazz vernacular.) So it contains only one note of difference from the major scale - and hence all of the melodic minor modes are only one note different from their corresponding major modes.
		Although the most common minor chord in jazz is the minor seventh (m7), the melodic minor chord (mâ—³7) also shows up quite often, almost always functioning as the tonic.
	www.angeltowns.com /town/gordonburi/edu/melod.htm (541 words)

	Unanimated - Melodic Swedish Death Metal
		Much in the style of "North From Here" from Sentenced or "The Somberlain" from Dissection, this album is driven by unravelling melodies which sketch a harmonic relationship in which the fundamental directional reconfigurations of the song occur.
		Instrumentation is proficient and varies in its mix between Iron Maiden meets death metal melodic riffing and jazz/progrock guitar stylings.
		Majestic in its presentation of gently seeding terror which issues forth in snowballing momentum firebombs of riff phenomena culminating, this music projects its essential tonal issues well and cloaks them in conceptual exploration of nihilism, self-negation and desire for significance in moments of clarity.
	www.anus.com /metal/unanimated.html (418 words)

	Melodic Clustering: Motivic Analysis of Schumann's Träumerei - Cambouropoulos, Widmer (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Given a segmentation of a melodic surface, the proposed model constructs an appropriate representation for each segment in terms of a number of attributes (these reflect melodic and rhythmic aspects of the segment at the surface and at various abstract levels) and then a clustering algorithm (the Unscramble algorithm) is applied for the organisation of...
		Melodic Cue Abstraction, Similarity and Category Formation: A..
		Cambouropoulos, E. and Widmer, G. (2000a) Melodic Clustering: Motivic Analysis of Schumann's Trumerei.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /423201.html (384 words)

	MelodicRock.com
		The world's favourite melodic power metal act Power Quest are set to warm up for their forthcoming Firefest 2 appearance on November 26th with a couple of shows just prior to the event.
		It doesn't matter if you liked him the best when he was the world's purveyor of melodic rock or if you prefer his latest works as singer songwriter extraordinaire, because the fact is that he is the uncrowned king of melody and Mighty Blue Ocean will not make you disappointed.
		Melodic rock mail order store Schmankerl Records in Germany are celebrating their 10th Anniversary.
	www.melodicrock.com (8634 words)

	Human Response: melodic electronica
		She is a classically trained musician in piano and composition but is as passionate about electronica and its various subgenres as she is about J.S. Bach.
		She creates electronic music with layers of melodic and rhythmic interaction.
		Her extensive use of the minimoog gives her music a vintage analog sound which she continued when her music evolved using digital samplers and sequencing.
	magnatune.com /artists/human_response (450 words)

	melodic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The melodic label began in September 1998 after receiving a demo from James Rutledge.
		Minotaur Shock had 'Chiff-Chaffs and Willow Warblers' become the first album to be released on melodic and was greeted with high praise.
		They bought the first three releases on melodic and decided it was one of their favourite labels so melodic were lucky enough to get their demos before anyone else.
	www.melodic.co.uk (382 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Analysis and Cognition of Basic Melodic Structures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eugene Narmour formulates a comprehensive theory of melodic syntax to explain cognitive relations between melodic tones at their most basic level.
		Expanding on the theories of Leonard B. Meyer, the author develops one parsimonious, scaled set of rules modeling implication and realization in all the primary parameters of music.
		He places considerable emphasis on the listener's cognitive performance (that is, fundamental melodic perception as opposed to acquired musical competence).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226568458 (375 words)

	Here are some hot new AOR and Melodic Rock bands:
		They put out a CD titled 'Wide awake' which I hope to review soon, because I heard one of their songs called "Rhyme or reason" which was a nice westcoast AOR rocker like TIM KARR.
		They play melodic hardrock in the style of GOTTHARD and released a CD titled 'Who Am I' and hopefully I can hear and review that record soon.
		He comes out of New York and I was told he is playing 80s typed melodic rock with some RATT references.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/strutteraor/LATESTNEWAORBANDS5.htm (2032 words)

	Metal Hordes Forums - Someone give me names of good melodic black/death metal bands
		The fluctuate between very hard and very melodic, integrating almost medieval sounding tunes with excellent guitar work.
		They just released their debut CD back in October and they go on a tour in the SW in February.
		Another good "melodic" metal/hard rock band ya might want to check out is Cold Colours.
	www.metalhordes.com /forum/showthread.php?t=328 (413 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock BI-BY
		Most of their pieces develop by taking a theme, usually melodic, and rhythmically and harmonically fragmenting and mutating it.
		Overall, this is a good album and one that fans of melodic symphonic prog should enjoy.
		Boffo's guitar is heard throughout, very melodic and reserved, remaining an essential part of the mix, rather than a flashy solo artist on top of a backing band.
	www.gepr.net /bi.html (14929 words)

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