Husserl's favorite example is a melody.
In Adams's hands, however, it becomes a reverb-heavy mulch of noisy guitars and is the first example of the melody getting completely trampled on.
At the same time that I am aware of a melody, for example, I am co-aware of my ongoing experience of the melody through the retentional structure of that very experience and this just is the pre-reflective self-awareness of experience (cf. Zahavi 2003).
"It starts with an abstraction, then the sound reminds me of a melody, then another melody".
The hearing of a melody is a hearing with the melody...
I'm an improviser in search of a melody.
The perception of a melody is invariant to the absolute properties of its constituting notes, but depends on the relation between them the melody's relative pitch profile.
We composed a musical excerpt in C-major consisting of a melody and accompanying fundamental chords.
An example of an X-Y trace in time for a simple melody is presented in Fig. 6.
