What is a Melody?

Alma, Brittney, Darlene, Hali, Lili and Mona,

Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary

A melody is a line of notes that moves upward or downward.
A melody moves in three ways, steps, leaps and repeats.

Steps

 
 

When a note moves up or down from a
line to the next space that is a step.
Notes can also move up or down from
a space to the next line

Leaps

Leaps can be large or small, and can
move upward or downward

Repeats

 

Contour

The way the tones move gives a melody
it's shape or contour
 

Put the steps, leaps, and repeats together
with the rhythm and you have a melody

 
 

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