The paper presents an analysis of the phenomenon of "native melody" in the essayistic and poetic reflections of Momčilo Nastasijević. A comparative review of two versions of the essay about 'native melody' has been established: "for the native musical tongue" and "for the native melody", which points to the genesis of the author's reflection and attempts to figure out the perceived musical, rhythmic and linguistic phenomenon (native melody). The work includes the consideration of the euphonic and rhythmic organization of Nastasijević's verses, which are an example of an increase in the native melody by literary texts. In a separate chapter in the paper, the relationship between the native melody and the other is considered. The literary and theoretical considerations of Petar Milosavljević were taken as the basis for the hermeneutical discovery of the mother tune as a philosophical and artistic phenomenon. Essay, poetry and prose, in a word, the creative thinking of Momčilo Nastasijević opened the doors to a new tradition. Intermediate Serbian poetry in Nastasijević's work got a "window" into the world of traditional culture symbolically, through the sound that further creates Paranas images and forms an authentic vision of poetry as a vertical continuity. Nastasijević's essayistic considerations about native melody, which, in all likelihood, is not only native and not only the melody, they have created a new branch of the poet's poetics - an elitically speaking, one chosen tradition. To this chosen tradition, which consists of a tactile frame created by listening to the native melody, Momčilo Nastasijević has well, he merged an individual talent, shaped to "put words into the joints without cartilage, overwhelmed with a powerful impression and artistic impression".