Melody Key Terms Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• acciaccaturas: grace notes, small note with a line through it, played quickly before the next note.
• appoggiaturas: grace note without a line through it, borrows half the value from the next note.
• blue notes: flattened 3rd, augmented 4th, flattened 7th. often found in jazz and blues.
• conjunct: melody moving by scale steps.
• disjunct: melody moving via jumps rather than steps.
• sequence: repeated melodic idea but at a different pitch.
• imitation: repeated phrase in a different voice/instrument.
• balanced phrases: melody passages of equal bar length, common in classical music.
• improvisation: creating/changing a melody on the spot as part of the performance.
• syllabic: singing one syllable per note.
• melismatic: singing many different notes for one syllable.