1 the main tune in a piece of music that is often played or sung more than once: --
Could you play the melody for me?
It doesn't have a melody or any musical structure.
Or were there not in different places particular influences which transformed not only the performance, but also the musical substance of the old melodies?
The musical mutations are effectively rule-based processes, designed to elaborate or to add stability to the melodies.
There are thousands of bïlinï texts, but far fewer bïlinï melodies, owing to the fact that performers habitually recycled them.
The result was, not unexpectedly, unorganised and quite unlike classical diatonic melodies.
Afterwards a harmony, perhaps suggested by the natural registers of the human voices, was added to the melody.
When accompanying a song, the instrumental line usually follows the vocal line in unison with some ornamental variation and fill-in melodies between vocal phrases.
As discussed earlier, the verse melodies of these three songs are all pentatonic.
