Copland’s “HOE DOWN” from Rodeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdDYSTEuWo

After listening and analyzing intently to Hoe Down from Rodeo, I can confidently say
that the vocal melody uses disjunct motion because its melody rises and falls quickly using
mostly leaps into more than a scale as you can hear at 1:05 onwards and also at 1:43. Yes, of
course, there is some part where you can hear the conjunct motion of melody but that is not
noticeable, since as soon as the music starts, you can hear immediately the movement of the
melody going up and down.

Most of any kind of music or compositions, most especially instrumental music, repeated
notes define a melody but in this music, I can definitely say, it only contains .01% repeated
notes. Thus, this music has a melody of immediately moves from one note to the other.
Sometimes, a note repeats a tone after 2 rhythms just to emphasize the motive or the theme of
this music just like what you can hear at 0:30. It seems that it is repeated but actually it just the
motive that is being repeated but when it moves to the next phrase like at 0:34 to 0:42 played by
the trumpets and the violins, you can hear the disjunct motion of the melody. Looking as well at
the fiddler’s finger playing the melody, you can see how their fingers move from one to the other
showing how the notes move to other pitches.