Smooth, connected melody that moves principally by small intervals. Example: Beethoven, Symphony No.9, fourth movement "Ode to Joy" Real Audio: 28k | 56k | About this album This joyful tune moves in small, connected intervals (mostly seconds), making it conjunct.
a melody that moves mostly by whole step or half step, moving up and down the scale. The music for the phrases "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream" is conjunct, as are many examples of plainchant. Antonym: disjunct.
Smooth, connected melody that moves principally by small intervals. This joyful tune moves in small, connected intervals (mostly seconds), making it conjunct. Example: Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, fourth movement, "Ode to Joy" Real Audio: 28K | 56K | About this album
Pitches on successive degrees of the scale; opposite of disjunct.