Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 07:22:09 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: Language?


Lather. Rinse. Repeat. wrote:

> If the notes on the page do indeed signify, do they signify certain
> sounds
> or certain actions? (I suppose notated electronic music would
> complicate
> this issue.)  Or do they signify something more like vibrations (in
> the
> air, on a string) or even mathematical ratios?

And yet, it isn't the significatory features of notes on paper that is
music. The meaning of music is not as an indicator. Music is its own
meaning, is it not? And I would think something similar to language,
that the essence of language is not to be found in the
signifcator/signified formula, or the vibrations in the air.

Michael Staples



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