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	What is Melodic Accent?
		By "melodic accent", music theorists mean accent arising from pitch-related changes such as changes of pitch height, pitch interval, or pitch contour.
		The larger the pitch interval, the greater the accent.
		All eight conceptions of melodic accent were investigated through correlational studies of three contrasting samples of music.
	www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu /Huron/Publications/huron.accent.summary.html (421 words)

	parncutt.rtf
		In polyphonic textures, melodic accents tend to be stronger at the peaks than at the valleys of upper-voice melodies, and at the valleys rather than the peaks of lower-voice melodies.
		The strength of melodic accents in both the soprano and the bass is determined both by the sizes of preceding leaps and by the distance from the middle of the texture.
		The width of the curve corresponds to the duration of delaying and lengthening, or loudening and softening, in the vicinity of the accent.
	www.uni-koeln.de /phil-fak/muwi/publ/fs_fricke/parncutt.html (5463 words)

	Melodic accent
		The way this melodic accent is expressed varies quite a lot between different dialects of the language, but the dichotomy exists everywhere.
		In South Swedish dialects the "one syllable accent" is expressed as a falling tone of voice[?] on the first syllable, while the "two syllable accent" is expressed as a rise and a fall of the tone on the first syllable.
		In most Danish dialects (and some Scanian[?] too) this melody accent has been replaced by a glottal stop (stød) in place of the "one syllable accents".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Melodic_accent.html (186 words)

	Accentuation and Duration in the Music of the
		The melodic lines 4 and 7 are identical, but were left in their proper order.
		In my estimation, the melodic variants make sense only if one assumes that the songs were disseminated primarily in oral tradition and that the vast majority of them were performed in a free rhythm, that is, the melodies were performed so that all notes-not the syllables-were more or less equal in duration.
		It is often assumed that in mensurally notated motets, the first note of a modal pattern (i.e., the first note after the bar line in a transcription) receives a melodic accent.
	faculty.washington.edu /petersen/alfonso/muswerf.htm (3567 words)

	Accent (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark.
		Accents which do not correspond to the stressed beats of the prevailing meter are called syncopation.
		The vertical accent, third in the diagram, may be stronger or weaker than the horizontal accent; composers have never been consistent in using these markings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melodic_accent (392 words)

	Principles of Counterpoint
		In this example, after a melodic peak on the high A after the third beat, the Neapolitan harmony on the last beat creates a harmonic accent.
		Coordinated accents are a strong sign to the listener that something special is happening, usually a climax.
		Accent is related to harmony: Notes which belong to the prevailing harmony are perceived differently from those which clash with it.
	www.musique.umontreal.ca /personnel/Belkin/bk.C/1.html (1519 words)

	Annotation for Drake, Carolyn, Dowling, W. Jay, and Palmer, Caroline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the purposes of their study, they define three types of accent: metric accent, arising from regular patterns of dynamic intensification; rhythmic grouping accent, accruing to the notes immediately preceding and following a long duration or pause; and melodic accent, arising from melodic leap or change of direction.
		The authors devised four brief "themes," in which all three types of accent coincide, and four "variations" on each of these themes, in which one or all of the accent types are placed in confict with the others.
		The one exception to this involves the authors' "metric" accent, the accent arising from dynamic stress, whose displacement from other types of accent seems to have little effect on the perception of the pitch structure.
	www.music.indiana.edu /som/courses/rhythm/annotations/drake91.html (332 words)

	Illustration of accent
		Cooper and Meyer (1960) define accent as "a stimuli (in a series of stimuli) which is marked for consciousness in some way." They regard accent as a relational concept and as axiomatic in that it is understandable experientially but undefined causally.
		These accents are an accent of climax, an accent of image shift, and an accent of discontinuity.
		Lester (1986) defines accent as a point of emphasis or initiation, which is considered strong in relation to its surroundings.
	www.music.indiana.edu /som/courses/rhythm/illustrations/accent.html (395 words)

	Gregorian Chant Psalmody
		Cadences of one accent are those in whose melodic formula the last main or secondary accent are adapted.
		Pragmatic rules to distinguish the cadences of one accent and of two accents: The cadence of one accent that is the shortest has for foundation the paroxytone word, for example lége (' •); and it necessarily consists of two essentials notes: the first one accented —melodic accent—; and the second one unstressed.
		The A of the pitch is frequently the melodic grade adapted for the recitative note of the psalms.
	www.interletras.com /canticum/Eng/psalmody_ENG.htm (1994 words)

	Wikinfo \| Swedish language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diacritics are unusual in Swedish: Accent aigu (acute accent) and, less often, accent grave can be seen in names and some foreign words.
		In addition the melodic accent of South-Sweden is strikingly different from that of the capital-region (including Åland), which in turn differs clearly from provincial Dalecarlia and Gotland.
		In Finland-Swedish melodic accent isn't used at all, as is also typical for parts of northernmost Sweden, where Finnish dominated less than a century ago.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Swedish_language (1271 words)

	MidiToolbox: melaccent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomassen's model assigns melodic accents according to the possible melodic contours arising in 3-pitch windows.
		Accent values vary between 0 (no salience) and 1 (maximum salience).
		Reference: Thomassen, J. Melodic accent: Experiments and a tentative model.
	www.jyu.fi /musica/miditoolbox/melaccent.htm (81 words)

	MelodicRock.com - Interactive Melodic CD Reviews
		This hard rock album is very consistent, very melodic and quite powerful.
		The band's German roots are quite evident and their musical 'accent' is stronger than the less noticeable songs of Pink Cream 69 or Fair Warning for example.
		For fans of that European melodic hard rock sound though — a worthy addition to your CD collection awaits.
	www.melodicrock.com /reviews/chalice-chameleonation.html (225 words)

	Temporal Asymmetries as Period Markers
		This extraction does not depend on other cues from the musical surface (e.g., dynamic accent, melodic patterning, etc.); time-series information alone is sufficient.
		As Jonathan Kramer remarked: "A stress [dynamic] accent is incapable of affecting meter except in the most ambiguous of circumstances" (1986, p.
		studies of various parameters (pitch contour, dynamic accent, harmonic change) are equivocal with respect to their metric and salience, though there is some evidence that timing information has a greater degree of metric salience.
	www.people.carleton.edu /~jlondon/icmpc7.htm (2879 words)

	Important Music Terms and Definitions of Machaut (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In polyphony, or many-voice texture, two or more melodic lines are combined, thus distributing melodic interest among all the parts.
		Counterpoint is the art of combining in a single texture two or more simultaneous melodic lines, each with a rhythmic life of its own.
		Plainchant consists of a single-line melody, monophonic in texture, lacking harmony and counterpoint, and generally free from regular accent.
	www.nv.cc.va.us /home/jwulff/TERMS.HTM (608 words)

	weird al mp3s, roy, harmony, punk hair, freestyle rap lyrics, punk haircuts, shakira, accent, tom jones, silent circle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The natural melodic accent which would fall, in 'square' music, on the beat, is thus heard on the off beat.
		Roy orbison and friends, a fl and white night, a fl and white cinemax television special recorded at the coconut grove in the ambassador hotel in los angeles in 1988, brought orbison to the attention of a younger generation.
		Chromatic harmony is a vague term referring either to the use of many altered tones in the chord, or to the use of chromatic root movement in between the given chords.
	royfsmith.info /weird_al_mp3s.html (966 words)

	So beautiful, A trip from chillout to trance ! The new album from Hands.
		Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 124 and 148 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescendoing or featuring a breakdown.
		Vocal trance is a subgenre of trance music, and contains highly melodic sessions, intro/outros which are similar to those of hard trance and tracks of usually about 6 to 8 minutes long.
		The melodic part (2-5min) starts incrementally, combining vocals, usually female, and melodic sound (for the most part high pitched and fast) with the bass pattern to give a great melody cycle.
	www.hands.fr (4825 words)

	CycleForums Archive - Accents
		She turned it around and said canadians had a smooth, melodic accent :confused I wish I could hear it.
		Anyway, the primary element in a midwestern accent is the 'clip'...
		The Colorado folkes' accent is non-existant, almost the perfect example of neutral and perfect english since the invention of the vasectomy.
	www.cycleforums.com /forums/showthread/t-151753.html (4305 words)

	2.2 What makes Nordic countries a unity? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also, Finnish is related to the Sámi languages spoken in Norway, Sweden and Finland by the Sámi or Lapps, the aborigines of northern Scandinavia (and the Kola peninsula and adjacent lands).
		Melodic accent and glottal stop Norwegian and Swedish except Finland-Swedish belong to the few European languages with a melodic accent.
		In south Swedish dialects the "one syllable accent" is expressed as a falling tone on the first syllable, while "two syllable accent" is expressed as a rise and a fall of the tone on the first syllable.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/nordic-faq/part2_NORDEN/section-1.html (1651 words)

	Accent
		Accent has been something that we have been extremely passionate about, and I am very happy to say that I now present you our second issue!
		When I told Mike that he was on the cover of Accent he said, "That's awesome man, it should always be this easy to have a cover feature!" Here at Accent, we try to make it painless!
		Again, it is our goal to bring Accent to many different types of musicians.
	accent.jordanrudess.com /preview2.shtml (1068 words)

	Music 104\| Terms (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In France and Germany, it was usually slow and majestic, characterized by an accented dotted note on the second beat, beginning without upbeat.
		Downbeat: an accented or "strong" beat, on the first beat of a measure, indicated by a conductor with a downward motion.
		Sequence: the repetition of a melodic or harmonic pattern (with three or more occurrences) at continuously ascending or descending pitch levels.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /courses/music104/definitions.htm (3021 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Why the Welsh voice is so musical
		He found that a stereotypical Welsh accent is set apart from others in the UK by how its pitch changes.
		"A Welsh accent is instantly recognisable, but there has been little research into identifying what are the actual sounds and cadences that make it so," said Dr Walters, who is also a musician.
		Listening to Welsh accents from across south Wales, Dr Walters found intonation patterns were similar, but with phonetic differences.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/5056236.stm (390 words)

	MTO 7.4: Huron, What is a Musical Feature?
		The concept of "melodic interval" relies on the assumption of an underlying "voice" or "part" and deciphering voicing sometimes entails remarkably sophisticated interpretations.
		That is, theorists rightly consider melodic intervals to be implied by individual successive pitches, and rightly assume that such intervals may be readily derived in most circumstances.
		Implicit in any descriptive language is the idea that the descriptive terms (such as "melodic interval") are not reified concepts, and that, unlike the concept of fuddle, they represent some organizing principle that has influenced either the construction of the work, or its reception, or both.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.01.7.4/mto.01.7.4.huron.html (8450 words)

	Chanting in the Vernacular A Song Both Old and New
		A language of strong stress and indefinite vowel sounds (English) cannot be forced into a set of melodic molds that were made for another language of subtle stress and pure vowels (Latin); the result is artificial and unconvincing -- or rather, convincing that such an attempt should not be made in the first place.
		In the first instance, the accent of "lingua" is on the first syllable, but the melodic stress falls on the two-note group over the second; and the same thing happens at the last line.
		With Latin, this kind of thing poses no problem, because the Latin accent is light; and indeed, the "syncopation" brought about by playing word accent against note accent is really the beauty of Gregorian chant -- its particular form of wedding text to music.
	www.adoremus.org /0403Chant.html (1245 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - How to Speak Brummie - A496352
		A peculiarity of the Brummie accent is the use of a downward intonation at the end of most sentences.
		This is in contrast to the nearby Scouse accent (or Liverpudlian) which tends towards an upward intonation.
		This is not an accent that exists in the real world, though some people, through extensive travelling/television viewing speak with an accent very close to it.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A496352 (1546 words)

	Salsa & Merengue Society – Glossary: Rhythms & Styles (A–M)
		The four beat pattern is accented on 2,3+,4,4+ with the congas.
		Also tends to have an accent on the "and" of beat four (4+).
		In this part of the song, the melodic instruments are less prominent and the percussion takes on a more driving pulse.
	www.salsa-merengue.co.uk /revealit/glosrham.html (645 words)

	Words and Music Conference March 2003 University of Missouri-Columbia
		Because of an emphasis on idiosyncratic contributions to foreground details during the act of performing, the singer is typically expected to create a gloss on a pre-existing theme, a unit with a predetermined musical identity in terms of melody and harmony, rhythm and meter, structure, and lyrics.
		By considering the continuum between speech and song, the temporal displacement of text, timbral accents, ornamentation, and other practices, I hope to show that the disarming poignancy of Holiday's interpretations can be explained musically, at least in part, by the greater liberties she takes with the model when compared to Fitzgerald.
		This paper tackles the issue anew by adopting a statistical approach and by applying a model of melodic accent derived experimentally by Thomassen (1982, 1983) and subsequently validated by Huron and Royal (1996).
	www.missouri.edu /~ling/lingconf03/abstracts.html (5268 words)

	melodic : news : newsletter 06
		Big apologies for the delay but the latest melodic release, the Tracks For Horses EP [ melo020 ], is in the shops on the 13th October but you can buy it immediately from the melodic shop.
		The main news this month is a bit of melodic action in New York City, USA with Pedro playing two live shows; the first is at the Knitting Factory on Tues 21st Oct and the second on Thurs 23rd at the Maritime Hotel.
		We're over from 18th-24th October on a bit of a fact-finding mission to try and get melodic better set up in the US and if any of our East coast friends want to try and hook up, just email David Cooper, david@melodic.co.uk.
	www.melodic.co.uk /news_06.html (590 words)

	Publisher's Corner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Denmark's Push is immediately reminiscent of White Lion, due to the group's musical style and Martie Peters' accent.
		German-based PC69 delivers an energetic, crisp, fun, melodic, fast-paced CD that falls on the heavier end of the classic-influenced hard rock category.
		With indie labels embracing the sort of fun, talented melodic rock that went "corporate" during the ’80s, PC69’s talent may find a home in the U.S. with that group of rock fans.
	membrane.com /renegade/summer99/pubcorn.html (287 words)

	DreamWorks SKG Fansite-Talk Back - Is it obsession ? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		yeah i luv his accent and i love frank perconte\'s accent too yum new york kinda accent yuumm i think the actor of guarnere is actually gorgeous too he grew on me he\'s kinda square but he grew on me
		My fiends all love the Irish accent and are all making plans to marry Irishmen, except one who is obssessed with Scotland, i mena she lives in England and everything but she supports their football teams and wants to live there and basically hates England.
		ye think the irish accent is melodic lord i dont think you\'ve ever heard the cork accent jesus its so high pitched yeah james madio is from new york i luvreeeeee his accent
	www.dreamworksfansite.com /talkback/showthread.php?p=31265 (1385 words)

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