Re: Melodies move by step in any form of music?

"LJS" <ljschenck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de news: 
f6ac6d25-1b8d-4478-8d90-2f9e312f0775@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> That is why I would look at it from the context of the Scale. The
> scale definition being that a "skip" is the movement from one note to
> another that skips a note in the scale.

+1 !!

> This would make the Pentatonic
> scale "sans skip" as well as allowing Alain's example to work,
> assuming that the notes that he chose would fit the requirements of a
> scale. His particular choice does have a rather unstable quality, but
> then again, so does the  whole tone scale.

Of course I won't argue "my" scale is particularly pleasant :-o
The only reason I gave this example was to illustrate a transition
greater than a tone between two neighbouring steps, which I
strongly refuse to call a leap for the reason you've just explained
above.

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