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Melodic features refer to the main tune of a piece.
Features include:
- Sequence
- a musical idea repeated at a higher or lower pitch
- Triadic movement
- movement built on the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes of a scale
- Scalic movement
- meloddy moves through notes of scale
- Chromatic movement
- movement by semitone
- Pitch
- how high or low a note is
- Blues notes
- notes based on the pentatonic scale in jazz
- Range
- from the highest note to the lowest note
- Ornamentation
- Trills
- Grace notes
- Turns
- Melodic ostinato
- a repeated melodic pattern
- Tonality
- major, minor or modal
- Repeated Notes
- Ascending/Descending
- Octave leaps
