Karl Miller wrote:

>Is it that music has the potential to provide specificity of thought
>without the specificity and limitations of thought imposed by or the
>result of language?

Felix Mendelssohn had this to say on the subject:

   "People often complain that music is too ambiguous; that what
   they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas
   everyone understands words.  With me it is exactly the reverse.
   . . . The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I
   love are not too indefinite to be put into words but, on the
   contrary, too definite."

Evan Zelermyer <[log in to unmask]>