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Karl Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:22:32 -0600
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Bernard Chasan wrote:

>As a language music is fuzzy and imprecise, as Dave's examples indicate.
>To think of music as a language is to deny its nature and its unique
>expressive power.  There is no denying that music, painting, literature
>can form rich connections, but that occurs precisely because they bring
>different strengths to the mix.

Why do you write that music has unique expressive power?

While music can be fuzzy...so can words.  Music can, on one level, have
specific meaning.  For example one particular pitch going to another
particular pitch both having specific durations and overtone structures.
Could that progression of pitches be the meaning?

Karl

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