Is Music a Language?—part 1
In a
recent ad for the Book How to Listen to
and Understand Great Music, 3rd Edition by Robert Greenburg this
statement was made, “Music is a non-verbal language that can encode volumes of
social, historical, and even philosophical information, provided you know how
to understand it.” Greenburg seems to
have a modified theory about music being a language. Some believe that music is a language; others
consider it to be a universal language; while still others believe music to be
no language at all.
Greenburg
touches on another major argument that questions whether or not we can
understand music’s meaning at all. Some
summerly dismiss the question of understanding music’s meaning by simply
asserting that music does not have any meaning at all. Still others believe that music has meaning
but that its meaning is an isolated meaning that is not related to life or any
understanding that is related in any way to life outside of music’s little
bubble.
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