Re: La Traviata


Mitchell Kaufman wrote:
> david7gable@xxxxxxx <david7gable@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Music is different. Like language, music consists of grammatical
> > patterns, but we are able to come to understand music, come to perceive
> > the patterns in it as such, through listening alone.
>
> True to some extent of language as well. A native speaker of English
> doesn't need to be professionally-trained in grammar to know that it's
> "I'm going to the store" rather than "To the store going I am." He's
> learned it by listening when he was a toddler.
>
> Still, it's often said that "music is a universal language." The hell it
> is!
>
> MK

I am afraid I do not understand those comments. Let us take a common
score, say Tchaikovsky Nutcracker.

Do you mean that if you placed the same parts on the stand of
professional players in say London, Belarus, Brno, Rejavicek, Utar
Pradesh they would not be able to replicate them?

Your argument about "English" would fall flat in many dialects of
England, although it is English. For example: Will you come with me?
would in Lincolnshire be: Shall you come with me?

How would you interpret a Norfolk, England, phrase: "Wass the bottom
dropped owt?"

Compared with that, music is simple.

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

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