L2 Rhythm and Scale Spelling

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MUSICAL LANGUAGE BA (Hons) Music Production for Media

RHYTHM EXERCISE 1

RHYTHM EXERCISE 3

RHYTHM EXERCISE 9

Rhythm terminology
Anacrusis Syncopation Dotted Rests Polyrhythms/

notes

cross-rhythms Rhythmic ostinato

phrasing conjunct/ disjunct augmentation/ diminution intervals triadic/ chromatic/ pentatonic/ diatonic/ whole tone note row blues note fragmentation inversion/ retrograde sequence motivic development heterophony slide/ portamento ornamentation ostinato

SCALES NB:

use of and indicates semi-tone lower/ higher of the notes found in its major scale
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8

Major Natural Minor Pentatonic major Pentatonic minor Harmonic Minor Blues Scale

Modes

Chromatic

4 4 5 6 6 7

7 8

Whole tone Jazz Melodic minor Altered Whole/half diminished Half/ whole diminished

1 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2 2 2

3 3 3 3 3

4 4

5 5 6 6 6 6 7

8 8

4 5 4 5

7 7 7 7

8 8 8

4 5

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