<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Stephen Jablonsky wrote:<i><br><br>A survey of the leading music theory textbooks reveals that they are
missing a component I consider significant––melody. The authors of most
theory textbooks seem to think that music theory is all about harmony,
counterpoint, and voice-leading. But that is the theory of multi-voice
textures. When do our students learn to construct single lines, the
things we all hum as we go about our day?</i><br clear="all"><br></div>Perhaps our teaching may have something to do with this omission. <br><br>What has been the result of querying students about "the harmonic implications of melodies" and teaching them "to create melodies built on simple chord
progressions?" Professor Jablonsky can begin to answer his own question.<br><br></div>Victor Grauer and Peter Schubert agree that "counterpoint is the father of melody." Perhaps this idea also helps explain the omission.<br>
<br></div>I wonder what those monodic melodists of ancient (and present) times would think of such ideas.<br><br><br><div><div><div>-- <br>Darryl White<br>University of Arizona<br>School of Music<br>
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