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Originally Posted by obs20
Does a melody exist, or is it just a sequence of notes that is interpreted by the listener?
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If you think of melodies as
meaningful sequences of notes, then there has to be something for which that sequence has meaning.
As I write this post, there are female Blue Tits sitting in the tree outside demanding to be fed by their mates. They make this demand by a particular series of notes - which is meaningful to the male. I only mention this because it's easy to think of meaning requiring human consciousness, or something very much like it - which it doesn't.