Re: Melody (a second class citizen?)
- From: jseaberry <jseaberry@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:21:20 -0000
On Jun 19, 12:13 pm, RickH <passp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For me, finding "ones voice" in jazz is about melody,
I suppose for others it can be harmony or rhythm or lyrics, but I like
melody.
So what makes great melody? Why has melody in modern pop music become
so lame (IMO)?
Why does Danny Boy still make me cry even without the lyrics, what
makes that (IMO) one of the greatest melodies of all time?
(along with hundreds of other great melodies, DB just comes to mind)
Melody, it seems, is neglected in education, or at least few have
tried to quantify and analyze it to the same granularity as harmony
and rhythm.
Most melodic analysis just ties it to harmony and rhythm, but does not
seem to study it for itself.
Any good theory books on melody alone?
Maybe melody simply cant be studied analytically like harmony and
rhythm because it does not eminate from logical rules, but from the
inner voice.
See if you can find Joe Diorio's DVD/video "Solo Guitar Concepts". It
was self-produced a few years ago. Playing the melody is what he comes
back to over and over; play it, add to it, leave it & come back to
it...etc.
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