“The hardest thing to talk about in music is melody”

I just added a quote from Pat Metheny’s stimulating conversation about Music and the Brain at Neuroscience 2018, to the “path to melody” item in Correspondences. Pat struggles with how to talk about melody in a way reminiscent of those music theorists that the great painter Gyorgy Kepes looked to for guidance in 1944. In doing so, he adds an important piece to this most complex of visual music puzzles: the long narrative or how to move from idea to idea to idea.