I've not restricted this to just a major or minor scale as many great melodies use accidentals (the black notes in a C major scale). Any of the 13 chromatic notes of the octave can be used.All melodies should be contained within an octave - C to C' inclusive.For the first section I've discounted rhythm so as to focus only on the permutations of notes.Remember the "old grey whistle test"? If it can be played on a tin whistle - it's a melody. The melodies will be a single stream of notes - no chords, counter-melodies or basslines - just a single line of music. The first thing to do is to lay down some ground rules. So, to counter the fear of there being no new melodies, I thought it would be interesting to examine the number of melodies available to a composer looking at his blank stave to see how many there potentially are.
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