dre wrote:
<< This
gives more room for the use of language to serve that
higher form of language: music. >>
dre,
i have to disagree with you and others. i don't think, even by kaspar
hauser's standards, that music is a language. language is designed to
communicate specific ideas and thoughts. music does not. in his 'norton
lectures' at harvard university in the early seventies, leonard bernstein
made a connection between the formal organization of music and syntax.
however, it is language's content that communicates the ideas not the
structure. yes, language really does need structure to organize the
thoughts into a clear meaning ('stop! don't! is different from 'don't
stop!") but, structure communicates nothing on its own. and, music's
content is simply sounds, as in singing- 'ah', 'eh', 'ih', 'oh', 'oo' ...
mike
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