Category Archives: Music Theory

The question Consider the following melodies: Melody 1: C-E-G Melody 2: B-C-C# “Melody 1” could be a melody in C Major, or maybe it could be in G Major. On the other hand, “Melody 2” is chromatic. So there isn’t any key that those notes all belong to. So the question is, can we categoriseContinue reading “When is a melody non-diatonic?”