Music as Language? a critique of structuralism and semiotics in the study of music
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The intention of this paper is to discuss issues involved with ‘music’ as a system of communication; particularly those issues that suggest that music is a type language or that musical symbols can in someway be equated with linguistic symbols. The intention is ultimately to demonstrate that this fixed approach to musicality is flawed in many ways, and that this is demonstrated consistently particularly by writings in the field of ethnomusicology. Music may indeed “serve a symbolic function in human cultures on the level of affective or cultural meaning” as Merriam so aptly puts its (Merriam, 246), but ultimately in this paper I will demonstrate by referring both to musicological and ethnomusicological writings involving musical communication and music semiotics that some of the unquestioned assumptions our culture makes about musical communication need to be revised and consistently reintroduced into the musicological world to create an open forum on musicality that considers the field from both an intertextual and an intercultural perspective.
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