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]