Klarinet Archive - Posting 000392.txt from 2002/07

From: w8wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Orca song
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:39:32 -0400

In regard to "what is music?" --- because it's not clear that whale or
dolphin or bird song should be thought of as a form of music --- just
as it's not clear that 'rap' is a form of music --- the Marvin Minsky
article:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/Laske.Interview.Music.txt

says:

The term "music" expresses rather [than harmonic analysis, etc] an
acceptance on the side of society that something is o.k.

Statements of this sort blur any clearcut dividing line between music
and language and other forms of aural communication.

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