Make a Melody
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Connect notes to make a song! 🎼 Place one note in each of the eight spaces. As the dots rise, the sounds rise too, so you can see the melody’s shape. Try making a melody that goes up, one that goes down, and a mountain-shaped melody that rises and falls. 🔁 Next, repetition. Create the first four spaces, then repeat them exactly, one note higher, or upside down — songs we know are made this way, with repetition and little changes. 🏁 Last, the ending note. Change only the final note of the same melody, and it can feel «finished» or «still going». Does ending on si make you want to return to do? This app was made with code too · Remix it and share your melody with a friend!
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About this app
Making a Tune is an interactive music-learning app for building and listening to simple eight-note melodies. Choose notes from doh to high doh and place them in sequence while a dot graph shows the melodic contour. Explore rising, falling, and hill-shaped tunes, then learn how exact, transposed, or backwards repetition and different final notes change a melody’s character.
Use cases
- Elementary students learning basic melody concepts
- Teachers demonstrating melodic contour and tonic resolution
- Beginners experimenting with simple composition
- Families creating short tunes and listening to the results
Features
- Compose an eight-note melody from selectable solfege notes
- Visualize pitch movement as a dot-and-line graph
- Identify rising, falling, hill-shaped, or varied melodic contours
- Repeat the first four notes exactly, one step higher, or backwards
- Change the final note to create finished or unfinished musical tension
- Play, reset, and advance through guided activities