“The coming together of rhythm and melody bridges our cerebellum and our cerebral cortex.”
Daniel Levitin (1957) American psychologist
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
“Simple melody and variety in rhythm.”
Melodia semplice e varietà nel ritmo.
His motto for Italian music, formulated in a letter to Filippo Filippi, August 26, 1868; Luca Somigli Legitimizing the Artist (2003) p. 103.
Often misquoted as "Simple melody – clear rhythm!"
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Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!