Karl Miller replies to me: >>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? >Simply from my direct experience. > >While music can be fuzzy...so can words. Indeed, language can be very precise but a poet can use it for other purposes. >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? I plead the fifth!!! Bernard Chasan