The problem there is that words like pleasant, meaningful, sweet or agreeable define responses to the thing, not the thing itself. Melody is a thing itself that can be good, bad or neutral. If you say "Melody is the sweet arrangement of notes," then how do you define melodies that are clearly melodies within a musical structure but are not sweet? They would be unsweet sweet arrangements of notes?androidlove wrote:that's how i define melodyshamann wrote:"the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes," "a parade of notes, one following the other meaningfully," or "a sweet or agreeable succession or arrangement of musical tones."
If instead of saying you define melody as such, you change it to you prefer melody as such, at least the dialogue is left open and something useful might come of it. Otherwise you just get folk standing in meaningless opposition to each other. Isn't there enough of that crap in the world already?
