D. Stephen Heersink in justified indignation growls:

>If musicians can't define "melody" except in terms of "bail outs," one
>has to wonder why they have to grapple with so basic an art...

Here's my necessarily tiny contribution in aid of music's cogency:

A melody is to music as a sentence is to writing (or vice versa).

Denis Fodor                     Internet:[log in to unmask]