Melody

Arpeggio

An arpeggio has the notes of a chord played in succession rather than together, strictly in continuously ascending or descending order.

A broken chord is when the notes often appear in any order.

This tutorial demonstrates what an arpeggio is and how to play one on the keyboard.

Conjuct or stepwise motion is where a melody moves by steps of either semitones or tones.

Disjunct or leaps is a melodic movement to a note further than a tone away from the previous note .

A repeated melodic idea that repeats at different pitch levels

A series of notes that are either ascending or descending, or both if using two hands on a piano (contrary motion).