Melody type

"Melodic figure" redirects here. For other uses, see Melodic pattern.
Passamezzo and Romanesca melodic formula[1] on D Playⓘ.

Melody type or type-melody[2] is a set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns.

  1. ^ Apel, Willi (1997). The History of Keyboard Music to 1700, p. 263. Trans. Tischler, Hans. ISBN 0-253-21141-7.
  2. ^ David Hiley. Western Plainchant. A Handbook. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 331–33.