Re: La Traviata

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
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