In this segment, we're going to talk about melody. Remember that everything we're doing, we're trying to relate to the concept of prosody. That everything support the central emotion, the central idea, the central feeling of the song. I just keep things simple. we are going to stay with our loop that we have been using, the A Minor to G Major, the 1 Minor to Flat 7. 4 bar loop, 2 bars of A Minor, 2 bars of G that way we will be able to talk about melody a little bit more clearly, I think. Harmony, of course, is a complete universe and worthy of study all by itself. Again, we're going to stay with melody here and keep the harmony sort of simple, easy to work with. stable versus unstable is the expression of prosody. And just as we talk about stable versus unstable in number of lines, in line likes, matching and un-matching line likes, in rhyme schemes, in rhyme types and in rhythm. So, we also talk about stable versus unstable in terms of melody. The key that you play in, and here we're in A Minor, but the key that you play in, whatever it may be, is going to have, in the scale of the key, stable and unstable tones. And it doesn't really change very much. In any key, the fundamental or the tonic or the note that names the key, in our case, A, is the most stable tone. The second most stable tone, as defined by the harmonic series, of course, is the octave. So A, A. And then, moving up again in the harmonic series, the 5th, the Sol, is the next most stable. And then, we move to another octave. And then, we move to the Major 3rd. So that the tonic, the octave, the 5th and the 3rd are the stable tones. That means that the second degree of this scale, Re, is unstable. The 4th degree of the, of, of the scale is unstable. The 6th degree of the scale is unstable. And the 7th degree of the scale is unstable. Now, in our case, in A Minor,[MUSIC] Do, very stable. [MUSIC] That feels unstable. [MUSIC] Re,[MUSIC] the Minor 3rd. [MUSIC] Feels very stable. [MUSIC] Fa,[MUSIC] unstable. [MUSIC] Fa, Sol,[MUSIC] very stable. [MUSIC] La, the Flat 6th. [MUSIC] K, the flat 7th. [MUSIC] Unstable. [MUSIC] So, we have four unstable tones in the scale of A Minor. Those unstable tones are just as expressive of instability as say a consonance rhyme might be, or a shortened line length might be. That is, it will create that feeling of wanting to resolve. Wanting to move, wanting to go someplace. so that the the second degree of the scale, Re, wants to move back to Do. The 4th degree of the scale wants to move back to the 3, the 6th degree of the scale wants to move back to the 5, the 7th degree of the scale wants to move up to the Do. and so they are all unstable. They are all wanting to go some place that they can't, that they are not addressed. They can, therefore, be used to call your ideas. So, that what we're going to try to do in the next segment is create a melody for the already melodic rhythm, and the lyric that we have for for our experimental song Hobo Wind. And see what kind of decisions we can make with stability and instability of notes as we move through the section of Hobo Wind. It'll be fun. [MUSIC] Here we are with just an A Minor loop, Do. [MUSIC] So, here's A, Do. [MUSIC] Feels very stable. [MUSIC] Here's Re. [MUSIC] Feel how that wants to move, how that feels unsteady? [MUSIC] It creates tension against it, creates a sense of longing. [MUSIC] Here's the third stable, the Minor 3rd, Me. [MUSIC] Me. [MUSIC] And that feels like it belongs. [MUSIC] Feels like, it's comfortable. [MUSIC] Here's Fa. [MUSIC] Feel how that wants to move, [MUSIC] wants to move back to me. [MUSIC] Here it's stable 'til Sol. [MUSIC] Feels right at home there. [MUSIC] Here's Le, Flat 6th. [MUSIC] Here's Te, the Flat 7th. [MUSIC] And then the octave. [MUSIC] And that's natural minor scale. It was again, as all scales, the tonic the 3rd and the 5th being stable and the other 4 tones being unstable. That is, the other 4 tones giving us a sense of wanting to go some place that we're not. being in motion and that sense of being in motion wanting to go some place that we're not, which is exactly by the way, what we want to do in the song Hobo Wind, to go some place that we're not. So, these tones may be very, very helpful in expressing, helping to express even more deeply this all notion of longing, this all notion of going somewhere that we want to go but aren't able to yet.