AFRICAN MELODY - African melodies, like melodies from all other cultures, are a series of individual pitches one occuring after another in order that the composite order of pitches constitutes a recognizable entity - the horizontal aspect of music.

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African melody has source scale
African melody is/are series of individual pitches
African melody supported by polyrhythms
African melody has element African timbre
African melody has African rhythm(s)
African melody expresses human emotion
African melody combined to form African harmony
African melody is element of African music