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Music comes with three elements: Harmony, Melody, Rhythm

as per this article..melody cannot exist without rhythm..

http://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/classicalmusiccompanion/rhythm.html

but i am still searching ____ Theoretically, yes. Typically, rhythm requires a pattern and repetition of that pattern (as with ALL musical ideas, there are exceptions). Also, the concept of rhythm is historically-specific. Our biased, contemporary ears might hear rhythms in music whose creators had different concepts/ideas for what they were doing. So, maybe a melody that does not exist in any regular/patterned time (beatless, meterless) and/or doesn't repeat any rhythmic patterns. Similarly, there can be rhythm without melody. Some Christian liturgical chants and Opera recitatives have usually-brief sections w/o melody. Lots of rap doesn't have melody. Basically, many declamatory singing styles don't have melody.

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