Melody

• conjunct - stepwise
• disjunct - leaping
• ascending - going up in pitch
• descending - going down in pitch
• ornamentation - appogiatura, acciaccatura, trill
• improvisation - made up on the spot
• blues - scale. blues notes - flat 3rd, 5th, 7th
• sequence - repeated up or down
• chromatic - moving up and down semitones
• motif - repeated melody in film/game
• inversion - melody upside down
• retrograde - backwards melody
• melody - the main tune