This is but an outline of a new approach to the Recent Style prosody. The tonal alternation of ping and ze in the typical prosodic pattern of the Recent Style is viewed in this approach not as a rhythmic metrics but as a melodic design similar to the alternation of pitch or length in a song. This view finds supports in the various ways of chanting and singing in Chinese oral tradition. All of the four possible combinations of ping and ze are regarded as regular formations of the musical loots, thus the old ao/jiu theory can be done without completely. A simple program is formulated to account for the typical Recent Style prosody of Tang poetry. In addition, it is demonstrated that the same program, when the value of its variables is reversed, is able to account for the Old Style prosody of the High Tang. It is hoped that this program and its variations can be used to trace the development of the Recent Style prosody of various periods.The theories of primacy of rhythm over syntax and saving the Recent Style prosody by reversing word order are rejected Some famous tines of the so-called reversed sentence are analyzed to show that they are well formed sentences. Reversed sentences must actually exist, but very likely not in the writings of a master poet.