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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