disjunct

A melody that rises and falls quickly, with large intervals between one note and the next, is a disjunct melody. One may also speak of “leaps” in the melody. Many melodies are a mixture of conjunct and disjunct motion.

Some classic songs that use primarily disjunct motion include songs like, “Tonight Tonight” (songwriter – Stephen Sondheim), “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” (songwriter – Howard/Arlen), and “Somewhere Out There” (songwriter – Mann/Weill).

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disjunct: melodic motion in intervals larger than a 2nd, often with a large number of wide skips.

Also called range fragmentation, disjunct distributions may be caused by changes in the environment, such as mountain building and continental drift or rising sea levels; it may also be due to an organism expanding its range into new areas, by such means as rafting, or other animals transporting an organism to a new ...

A conjunction implies that both statements are true, while disjunction implies that at least one statement is true. With a conjunction, statements are connected by the word "and" while with disjunction statements are connected by the word "or."

disjunct: a melody that is not smooth in contour (has many leaps) Doctrine of Affections: the Baroque methodology for evoking a specific emotion through music and text.

Melody can be characterized by conjunct or disjunct motion. Harmony is either consonant or dissonant.

Disjunction is the normal separation or moving apart of chromosomes toward opposite poles of the cell during cell division. Disjunction normally occurs during the anaphase of mitosis and meiosis (I and II).

There are two types of melodic motion: conjunct motion, which proceeds by step from one scale degree to the next (i.e., by the interval of a 2nd) and disjunct motion, which proceeds by leap (i.e., by intervals larger than a 2nd).

Conjunct simply describes a melody that moves in distinct steps or intervals, smoothly, and in a connected way. These steps are small, whole or half steps moving connectedly up or down the scale.

melody, in music, the aesthetic product of a given succession of pitches in musical time, implying rhythmically ordered movement from pitch to pitch. Melody in Western music by the late 19th century was considered to be the surface of a group of harmonies.