Understand That Music Has a “Tell”

Understand That Music Has a “Tell”

The word “tell” is a term meaning that an action gives clues to something’s meaning.  A tell is not necessarily spoken and may be an unconscious action, it is reliable because it communicates understandable meaning to the observer. Musicing is an action because it is done by a doer.  Since it is done, it has cause and effect. 

           All music when musiced, communicates understandable meaning whether or not the musicer purposely understands its meaning or purposely communicates its meaning since all music and musicing ha a tell.  This tell communicates understandable meaning to those who hear it performed.  The musicer becomes a communicator of the understandable meaning that is embodied in the music.

Thought for the Day

It is a faulty notion that music is only capable of saying absolutely nothing.  It is only the figment of 20th and now 21 century music philosophers minds that music is totally benign and without any ability to communicate understandable meaning.