For the Waris Hussein film, see Melody (1971 film).

Melody, music

  • "The continuity and diagetic function of almost all vocal melody draw us along the linear thread of the song's syntagmatic structure, producing a 'point of perspective' from which the otherwise disparate parts of the musical texture can be placed within a coherent 'image'."
    • Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music, p. 264. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0335152759.
  • You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!
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