Musicianship - Cal Poly - Dr. Alyson McLamore

Sample Tunes for Melodic and Harmonic Intervals

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Melodic Intervals

m2 - up

m2 - down M2 - up M2 - down m3 - up
Jaws Für Elise People 3 Blind Mice Brahms Lullaby
New World Symphony Beautiful Dreamer Close Encounters The First Noel ToDream the Impossible Dream
James Bond Monday, Monday Are You Sleeping? Mary Had a Little Lamb I heard it through the Grapevine
  ESPN* Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer   Greensleeves/What Child is This?
    Addams Family   Magnificent 7
    Silent Night   Be Our Guest (Beauty & the Beast)
m3 - down M3 - up M3 - down P4 - up P4 - down
Nyah-nyah Blue Danube Beethoven's Fifth Taps Old MacDonald
Dixie Kumbaya Doorbell O Christmas Tree A Mighty Fortress
Star-Spangled Banner Michael Row the Boat Ashore Swing Low, Sweet Chariot We wish you a Merry Christmas Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
O Beautiful It's a Small World Big Ben Chimes* Bonanza Pachelel Canon
Col. Bogey Major Triad   Look Down (Les Mis) Born Free
  Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In*   Wedding March  
      On My Own (Les Mis)  
      Auld Lang Syne  
Tritone - up Tritone - down P5 - up P5 - down m6 - up
Maria (West Side Story) Cool (West Side Story) (up at beginning) OZ Flintstones Black Orpheus
The Simpsons YYZ 2001 Feelings Go Down Moses
    Twinkle, Twinkle For Your Eyes Only A Day in the Life of a Fool
    Star Wars Superman Joanna (Sweeney Todd)
    Goldfinger Rude Boy (Rhianna) I Still Believe (Miss Saigon)
    Top Gun   Entertainer (3rd - 4th notes)
    Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)    
m6 - down M6 - up M6 - down m7 - up m7 - down
Love Story (Where do I begin?) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Music of the Night (Phantom) Somewhere (There's a Place for Us - West Side Story) ???
  NBC Sweet Caroline Star Trek  
  My Bonnie Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Josie (Steeley Dan)  
    Over There    
    Come to Me, Bend to Me    
M7 - up M7 - down P8 - up    
Cast Your Fate to the Wind Hut of the Baba-Yaga Somewhere Over the Rainbow    
outside of Color My World   When you wish upon a Star    
1 & 3 of Bali Hai (South Pacific)   Lonely Goatherd    
Take On Me (A-ha)*   Bali Hai    
    1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)    
Back to the Top *Thanks to Danny Beard, Univ. of So. Miss.

Harmonic Intervals

m2 M2 m3 M3 P4 Tritone
Nadia's Theme Chopsticks Silent Night Ode to Joy Little Drummer Boy Petrouchka
      Jingle Bells   Outward Pull
      Don't Cry For Me, Argentina (Evita)    
P5 m6 M6 m7 M7 P8
James Bond Theme Amazing Grace ??? contracting inward upper note has upward pull great stability
Pink Panther Theme Mexican Hat Dance        
  Linus & Lucy        
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