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Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music



Well the use of music on the battle field is not "Literal communication" Its a form of cumminication that would be better labeld as "Signals" Because thats what they were. Just because music can be used in ways other then it was intended to, does not make it a literal language. I think you can come up with a better example then military use of music, which at the time was the best way to communicate over small distances.

I never defined music or launguage.  Please reread my original post.


aLEKs

On Jun 23, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Exegene wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, aleks vasic wrote:
*snip*
Literal communication is not music, music was never intended to be so by itself.

Music can be reworked into a language very easily. Then literal communication could take place, but then it would cease to be music, and become literal language.
*snip*

Music has been used to convey specific, agreed on meaning(the word literal has no place describing meaning conveyed without word or text) by means of martial marches, battlefield orders given through drums and brass, communication by australian aborigines through didgeridoo across miles of desert. All blurring the lines in their own, more or less verbal ways are also yodeling, the whistle language of the canary(?) islands, and throat singing of tuva.

It seems premature and unnecessarily restrictive to outright define music and language as entirely seperate.

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