Music as a Poetic Language

Music as a formal language

The main focus of this paper is the characterization of generic musical structure in terms of the apparatus of formal language theory. It is argued that musical competence falls into the same class as natural language with respect to strong generative capacity – the class of mildly context-sensitive languages described by Joshi (1985).

Language, Music, and Brain

Introduction: Over the last centuries, scientists have been trying to figure out how the brain is learning the language. By 1980, the study of brain-language relationships was based on the study of human brain damage. But since 1980, neuroscience methods have greatly improved. There is controversy about where music, composition, or the perception of language and music are in the brain, or wheth...

Poetic (In)Justice? Rap Music Lyrics as Art, Life, and Criminal Evidence

poetic language of al-maqut

muhammad al-maqut is considered as one of the most important pioneers of blank verse in arab world. his literary works include different forms such as novel, drama, blank verse, movie script and diary. simplicity, pragmatism and sadness are characteristics of his works. this article attempts to study the language used by al-maqut in “badvi al-ahmar”. the simplicity of the terminology applied by...

Mariko Kunitomo Art Music as a Universal Language : Youth

The objective of this thesis is to identify the role of art music in the context of youth orchestra projects that directly deal with social conflicts of specific youth populations. Art music plays a major role in the positive influence of these youth orchestras that giving its young musicians the opportunity to learn and develop, both socially and personally, in a healthier or alternative manne...