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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Singing isn't a prerequisite of melody. Bebop has oodles of melody but rarely has any vocals, for example. In hip hop songs, generally speaking, rapping is part of the rhythm and the melody comes from other instruments.
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To say nothing of scat. Then there's
vocalise.
Not to mention this, where Waits doesn't sing by any definition; this is almost a rap, long before its time.