[log in to unmask] writes:

>According to whom? Melody encompasses a very wide range of sounds, and
>nobody has a patent on their quality.  Beethoven's melodies are much less
>creamy and sweetly flowing than many composers; what that adds up to is
>for the listener to decide.

Actually to many people, including Igor Stravinsky, please read:  The
Poetics of music (A lecture given at Harvard in 1945) preface by Darius
Milhaud.

Nicolas