disjunct
- adjective
- /dɪsˈdʒʌŋkt/
- Specialized
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por saltos
- Stan knows he wants to address the syncopated rhythm, the disjunct intervals, and the text by E. E. Cummings.
Examples
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Finally, melodies comprising conjunct motion are easier to sing and easier to teach than those with disjunct motion.
Academic text (2000) -
She preferred disjunct melodies because they added an intriguing complexity to her compositions.
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Is there an obvious melody, and is it smooth or disjunct?
Academic text (2005) -
The song's melody covers the range of a twelfth, yet there is a good balance between conjunct and disjunct motions.
Academic text (2007) -
Lessons 2 through 9's sight-singing were often too disjunct for singing purposes, and students would need ample experience in singing and sight-singing in order to understand the structure.
Academic text (2011) -
The melody in the song moved in a disjunct manner, creating surprising leaps between notes.
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In music theory class, we learned that disjunct melodies can create a sense of tension and excitement.
Synonyms
Describes distances between musical notes
Antonyms
How Stepwise
Surface Forms
Morphology
disjunct = dis + junct
Even though the sense involves notes being separated by larger intervals, the form 'disjunct' is a learned Latinate adjective whose meaning is not readily recoverable by a typical learner from its parts.
Etymology
Disjunct comes from dis- 'apart' and junct 'to join', and in music it describes notes that 'leap' away from each other instead of moving by small steps. So a disjunct melody feels jumpy because the notes are not smoothly joined.