implicit in the creation of a coherent linear organization.

     Song is the slowing down of speech in order to savor 
nuance. Blank verse originated in an age that first split words 
and music asunder and which moved towards the specialist 
autonomy of musical instruments. According to Mellers, the 
role of polyphony was to break up the ancient monodic line. 
And polyphony was to have effects in music comparable to 
movable types and mechanical writing in language and 
literature. For especially after the printing of music 
quantification and measurement became necessary as a means 
of keeping the singers of various parts together. But medieval 
polyphony only had these separate parts and quantities in 
latency. Mellers writes (p.31):

     It seems possible that polyphony was in the first place a