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Melody: A Popular Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Gino Stefani
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Current musicology has not developed such a methodical or systematic knowledge of melody as it has of other aspects of music. Music schools have courses and examinations in harmony, counterpoint, musical forms, etc., but not in melody; in the same way, books dealing with melody are rare exceptions.

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Popular Music , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1987, pp. 21 - 35
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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