Talk:Melodic fission

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Melodic fission? Compound melody?

What is here described as "melodic fission" is known to me (and generally, I believe) as "Compound melody". See for instance Forte & Gilbert, Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis, Chapter 3, pp. 67-80. See also Unfolding_(music), or compare the results of a search on either term on Google.

So far as I can tell, "Melodic fission" stems from Dane Harwood, "Universals in Music: A Perspective from Cognitive Psychology", Ethnomusicology 20/3, 1976, pp. 521-533.

I believe that the definition at the head of the article would deserve revision, perhaps stressing that the phenomenon is called "music fission" by cognitivists and "compound melody" by music theorists.

-- Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 09:18, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As nobody commented, I added this to the article itself. Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 10:44, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]