Line cliché
Line Cliché (English-French) [ 'lain kli'ʃɛj ] describes a musical composition scheme in which a short melodic phrase or harmony is repeated several times while the bass part rises or falls in semitone or whole-tone steps. This creates a new harmonic variant with each repetition, which gives the mostly simple melody an interesting tension. This technique comes from jazz music , but is also used in pop music . Depending on whether the starting harmony is a major or a minor chord , a distinction is made between major and minor line cliché.
Examples:
- Blue Skies ( Irving Berlin )
- Into The Great Wide Open ( Tom Petty )
- One Note Samba ( Antônio Carlos Jobim )
literature
- Julian Oswald: Crash course in harmony theory. Schott, Mainz et al. 2016, ISBN 978-3-7957-0925-9 .