In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David W. Fenton writes: >Plenty of music has meaning with absolutely no non-musical external >references. We may not be able to verbalize exactly what that meaning >may be, and we may not all agree on the exact meaning, but the >meaning is, in fact, there in the music.
We must mean different things by meaning, which is not surprising: IIRC the philosopher A J Ayer wrote a whole book called "The Meaning of Meaning". My favourite dictionary definition is "the sense intended". Please explain how I should know what the composer intended without extra-musical explanation. What most music conveys to me, irrespective of outside information and explanation, is an influence on my emotions, but I know that it can influence other people very differently, even in the opposite sense, without necessarily being bad music. -- Ken Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/ I reject emails > 100k automatically: warn me beforehand if you want to send one _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
