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Jean-Paul Escoubet:
>The "meaning of music" is a thing definitely personnal, the meeting of three
>great elements:
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>- A set of universal psychological parameters contained in music
>expression
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>- Cultural conventions shared by people from a same culture and time
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>- Personnal experience of perception, psychological background
I doubt of the first element. Are there actually "universal psychological
parameters contained in musical expression"?. I think that many western
musical parameters became more or less "universal" by spreading all over
the world, but this doesn't means that there are (or were) absolute
parameters shared by all cultures.
>I think we find here a fascinating and essential subject to talk about:
>"the meaning of music". Have you read interesting books on the subject?
>What is your opinion about it?
I think that musical meaning, being not "predicative", is just an effect,
an illusion of meaning. We know that there's "something" in certain music,
but It shows itself by hiding.
Pablo Massa
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