The renormalized phonon frequencies of a monatomic classical crystal at melting arerelated tothedirectcorrelationfunctionsofitsliquidatfreezing by meansofafunctional expansion of the free energy of a suitably deformed crystal around the liquid phase. Expressions for lhe elastic ~~~t a n t ~ follow by the 'long-waves' method and are compared with earlier results obtained by the homogeneous deformation method. The role of threebody correlations in the functional expansion is discussed, but the illustrative calculations that we present include only the Omstein-Zernike two-body direct correlation function of the Liquid, weighted by a Debye-Waller factor. The Orstein-Zemike function can be obtained eitherdirecllyfrom the measured liquidstructure factoror by liquid structure theory in modelsystems. Ourcalculationsofphonondispersion relations and elasticconstantsrefer to the BCC metals sodium and potassium, to a Lennard-Jones model for FCC argon, and to lheclassicalone-componentplasmacrystallizedintheBccandFCCstructures. The theoretical resultsare compared with neutron inelasticscatteringandelasticconstantsdataonsodium, potassium and argon, as well as with computer simulation data on the crystallized plasma.