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Originally Posted by willravel
Spoken poetry has no melody or harmony. Music requires at least some melodic content. You don't sing rap. There can be music in rap, but rap itself is not music.
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It can be argued that the way the lyrics are presented in rap is the melody, and that the beats, samples, and other components in the background make up the harmony. Just because rap isn't sung, it doesn't mean a rap performance isn't music. Also, you left out the rhythmic component that also is a characteristic of music.
"Spoken poetry has no melody." Say that to a room full of poets, and you'll have a bunch of angry people with vast sense of diction.... You want to have an earful?
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