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- Atonality and melody are not exclusive. Melodic-linear thinking is entirely independant of what kind of tonality you use.
- There are quite a few famous pieces that are not remembered because of melody. In fact I believe that Bolero, which you mentioned, wouldn't be very popular without the constant underlying rhythm, which is probably much more essential to the effect of the piece than the melody. The only reason why people even remember the melody is that it's repeated like a million times.
- And really, I don't think one should write music "to be remembered" in the first place.
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