The Language of Music


	The Language of Music

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12-29-2007 6:47 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4a1b9077-795f-4996-9a39-3790cfa54c43/06FE1BB7-C5FE-4CFF-90E9-51861B40F111/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm" href="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.musicweb-international.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm">One 
                of the more enlightening books on musical 
                philosophy, the meaning of music itself, 
                was published around forty years ago: 
                Deryck Cooke�s "The Language of 
                Music". This has often been referred 
                to. It points out that music is a language 
                quite capable in its own fashion of 
                communicating to those attuned to what 
                it has to say. Bertrand Russell once 
                commented that: "the telephone 
                directory communicates information without 
                emotion while music communicates emotion 
                without information". This is probably 
                for most purposes as neat a way as possible 
                of putting it. While we all realise 
                that words can be poetic or have a hidden 
                meaning, their basic usage is straightforward 
                enough; they mean precisely what they 
                say.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm">All 
                I can say is that, while I know that 
                I myself am not capable of finding words 
                to tell you why I feel this way, deep 
                down inside I think I do know; but I 
                cannot find the words to express it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm">"language of music" 
                needs no literary explanation.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Nature_Butterworth.htm">Arthur 
                Butterworth</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/06FE1BB7-C5FE-4CFF-90E9-51861B40F111/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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