To understand melody and harmony, you have to know what those terms mean. Let’s start with melody, the easy one. If people ever refer to the ‘tune’ of a track, they mean the melody. Harmony is a bit ...

Learn how to write a melody and discover how different melodies can make us feel with this KS2 music guide from BBC Bitesize.

Listening to a melody can sway our emotions because the auditory neurons that process music are in conversation with emotional centers in the brain. “Composers talk about musical tension and ...