Ian Crisp writes:

>Music is not about communication.  It is communication (IMO of course -
>Len can and possibly will speak for himself!)

Ian correctly anticipates.

My only problem with the word "communication" is my presumption that
"communication" entails accurately sharing a specific message, and to the
extent that that message is not *perfectly* received, communication as
such fails or is corrupted.  This is perhaps reflective of my engineering
background, but be that as it may, it leads me to prefer something like
"evocation" rather than communication.  Music is undeniably "evocative";
whether it evokes in each of us the same response, even a merely similar
response, and what resemblance that response bears to what the composer
"had in mind" is entirely another issue.

len.