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MUSIC SYSTEMS THEORY: SURFACING THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF SONGWRITING AND LEARNING

NTUITION

melody is a sketch of an emotion; an impression left by the background. like a set of footprints in the snow, you “discover” it only after you arrive and find it waiting on you. an entire industry is built around melody, with little mention about how a melody happens. and, that’s because melody is intuition — and intuition happens TO you. a spark of intuition moves you to its idea. the idea guides your mind’s search for the soundwave. you know it when you hear it, because intuition has already supplied you with the feeling.

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