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December 2012

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity. In its most literal sense, a melody is a combination of pitch and rhythm, while more figuratively, the term can include successions of other musical elements such as tonal color. It may be considered the foreground to the background accompaniment.

Songwriting Lesson for Beginners to Advanced

Andrea Stolpe is a Songwriting instruction for melodic, lyric, and harmonic ideas from Berkleemusic.com instructor and writer of "Popular Lyric Writing: 10 steps to Effective Storytelling" Check out her site at http://songwritingtips.net/ [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5VtYYvSzo]\