<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>I think we should not seek the one true classification scheme, but should demonstrate common-sense flexibility in class, using examples from repertoire. No text will be both perfectly user-friendly and perfectly complete. </div><div><br></div><div>The text we use (Clendinning and Marvin) emphasizes melodic approach and resolution, so I supplement by telling my students that other parameters are also significant, and sometimes more relevant to perception, namely metric stress relative to resolution, and also length (submetrical, metrical, super-metrical) relative to resolution.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing few theory books attempt is a discussion of multiple layers or levels of melodic embellishment, such as is common in (among many others) Chopin, bel canto lines, or variation sets generally. Again, not necessarily a failing, but possibly a decision that this is something better left to the instructor.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Skia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Skia; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span><div apple-content-edited="true" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Skia; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>David Feurzeig</div><div>Associate Professor, Composition and Theory</div><div>Music Department</div><div>University of Vermont</div><div>Burlington, VT 05405</div><div>802-656-1498</div><div><br></div></div></span></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></body></html>