Re: (idm) listening to music...

From Crtrdge003
Sent Mon, Jun 28th 1999, 20:50

In a message dated 6/28/99 1:45:56 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx writes:

>   The category of "pure" music, meaning
>  instrumental music, is a myth.  Both lyrical and instrumental music
>  express emotion, and both convey meaning. 

I do concede however that words can contain much emotion, it's simply a fact 
that the same words will not produce the same emotion in different people, 
therefore language is an extremely flawed form of commication in comparison 
to music.. or simply just raw sound, for that matter.

-=Aaron