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MELODIC
PROSODY
MELODIC PROSODY
prosody -
1) the natural pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken language
2) the study of metrical structure in poetry
3) unity of lyric and melody in song
It was Mary who had the littlest lamb
With fleece just as white as the snow
And all of the places that Mary went
The lamb would most surely go
Mary had a little lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
MELODIC RHYME
MELODIC RHYME
Great commercial melodies move with parallel internal structure just like lyrical rhyme.
From the PERFECT RHYME of exact repetition along the continuum to looser or "slant" rhymes of ASSONANCE or CONSONANCE.
Ariana Grande - "ONE LAST TIME"
One last time, (A)
I need to be the one who takes you home (B)
One more time, (A)
I promise after that, I’ll let you go (B)
Baby, I don’t care if you got her in your heart (C)
All I really care is you wake up in my arms (C)
One last time, (A)
I need to be the one who takes you home (B)
Luke Bryan "THAT'S MY KIND OF NIGHT"
You can hang your t-shirt on a limb (A)
Hit that bank and we can ease on in (A)
Soak us up a little moonlight (B)
You know I know what you like (B)
James Bay "HOLD BACK THE RIVER"
Once upon a different life
We rode our bikes into the sky (A)
But now we're caught against the tide
Those distant days all flashing by (A)
Coming Due
Another Song Journal 2day
Song #2 before Tuesday
COMING UP
Every member of every group has to turn in a lyric and a recording on Canvas before the start of class on Tuesday