Note sequences {melody} can rise, fall, or stay the same. Line or phrase notes typically go up, go down, pause, and build to climax. Melody typically repeats phrases. Melody can have small interval between adjacent notes {conjunction, notes} or large interval {disjunction, notes}. Humans can recognize melody from several notes. People perceive melodies more easily at higher frequencies.
Larger pitch changes are typically between longer-duration notes, and smaller pitch changes are typically between shorter-duration notes {Fitts' law} {Fitts law} {leap lengthening}. Large pitch changes are typically upward [Fitts, 1954].
Melody typically goes down after large rise and goes up after large fall {post-skip reversal}, because it reaches range end.
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