The Pasyón (Spanish: Pasión) is a Philippine epic narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, focused on his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. In stanzas of five lines of eight syllables each, the standard elements of epic poetry are interwoven with a colourful, dramatic theme.
Explanation:
Color Melodies
Color melodies are melodies that rely heavily on groove. They are often made up of just one or two notes, like the chorus from Taylor Swift’s Style or the “I can see your halo (halo, halo)” bit from Beyoncé’s Halo. In other words, they have a clear base pitch.
Without chords, color melodies are intrinsically boring. They are not going anywhere and they don’t provide a lot of color by themselves.
Add some chords though, and each new chord brings in a new emotion. What emotion this is depends entirely on what interval the melody represents in this new chord:
1 (root): strong, hypnotic
2: dreamy, open
b3: sad
3: happy
4 (only in minor chords): dreamy, open
5: strong, hypnotic
b6: sad, tense
6: grand
b7: funky
7: dreamy
8: see 1
Do you see the commonalities with what we talked about in the post on harmony? If not, go back and read it again, because seeing this connection is important.
Direction Melodies
Direction melodies use more different notes and don’t have a clear base pitch. The verses to Bernhoft’s Choices or C’mon Talk are great examples.
Because it doesn’t come back to the same pitch over and over again, this type of melody is quite challenging to sing. Because audiences have troubles singing along, it has mostly disappeared from pop music and can only be found in jazz or soul.
This is a shame, because as you can hear from the two Bernhoft songs, they can sound absolutely fantastic.
Blends
This is the kind of melody we hear day in, day out on the radio and it combines the two previous types.
If you’re ever struggling finding a good melody to a song, going at it with a blend approach is a pretty safe bet.
Blends are melodies that shift their base pitch every 1 or 2 bars. Take Rachel Platten’s Fight Song: It changes its base pitch from the root to the 2 to the 3 to the 4. In other words, it moves up, up, up. Or take R.City’s Locked Away (feat. Adam Levine), going from 3 to 1 to 4 to 3.
Remember these key differences:
Color melodies are groove-based, direction melodies are melodic. Blends are both.
Color melodies have one base pitch, direction melodies have none, blends change it every one or two bars
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Answer:
The Pasyón (Spanish: Pasión) is a Philippine epic narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, focused on his Passion, Death, and Resurrection. In stanzas of five lines of eight syllables each, the standard elements of epic poetry are interwoven with a colourful, dramatic theme.
Explanation:
Color Melodies
Color melodies are melodies that rely heavily on groove. They are often made up of just one or two notes, like the chorus from Taylor Swift’s Style or the “I can see your halo (halo, halo)” bit from Beyoncé’s Halo. In other words, they have a clear base pitch.
Without chords, color melodies are intrinsically boring. They are not going anywhere and they don’t provide a lot of color by themselves.
Add some chords though, and each new chord brings in a new emotion. What emotion this is depends entirely on what interval the melody represents in this new chord:
1 (root): strong, hypnotic
2: dreamy, open
b3: sad
3: happy
4 (only in minor chords): dreamy, open
5: strong, hypnotic
b6: sad, tense
6: grand
b7: funky
7: dreamy
8: see 1
Do you see the commonalities with what we talked about in the post on harmony? If not, go back and read it again, because seeing this connection is important.
Direction Melodies
Direction melodies use more different notes and don’t have a clear base pitch. The verses to Bernhoft’s Choices or C’mon Talk are great examples.
Because it doesn’t come back to the same pitch over and over again, this type of melody is quite challenging to sing. Because audiences have troubles singing along, it has mostly disappeared from pop music and can only be found in jazz or soul.
This is a shame, because as you can hear from the two Bernhoft songs, they can sound absolutely fantastic.
Blends
This is the kind of melody we hear day in, day out on the radio and it combines the two previous types.
If you’re ever struggling finding a good melody to a song, going at it with a blend approach is a pretty safe bet.
Blends are melodies that shift their base pitch every 1 or 2 bars. Take Rachel Platten’s Fight Song: It changes its base pitch from the root to the 2 to the 3 to the 4. In other words, it moves up, up, up. Or take R.City’s Locked Away (feat. Adam Levine), going from 3 to 1 to 4 to 3.
Remember these key differences:
Color melodies are groove-based, direction melodies are melodic. Blends are both.
Color melodies have one base pitch, direction melodies have none, blends change it every one or two bars
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