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Melody

Beatles created interesting, innovative melodies to a genre known for rather repetitive, simple melodies of prior rock ... even their early work revealed innovation.

And I Love Her

Innovations of the Beatles creative approach to melody ...

• exploited larger range
• utilized melodic leaps in addition to scalar motion
• dissimilarity between various melodies (vs. Jim Morrison or the Stones)

look at diagram on p. 105 in text

Norwegian Wood

Yesterday

Disjunct melodies (vs. conjuct [or scalar]):

Got to Get You Into My Life

• instictive ability to create memorable tunes (complex or simple)
  • e.g., "Yellow Submarine," "Yesterday," "Michelle," or "Something"
• Gestalt interweaving of words, rhythm, & melody
  • whole is greater than sum of the parts
  • to some extent, at least, defies technical analysis

Irregular text smoothed by melodic appropriateness:

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

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