Me thinks the lady doth protest too much” how arduous could it be to write a mere play, play upon the works of language to perform perfectly pleasant airs? Preposterous! That it should be going on two weeks with little written, that the unfinished characters should haunt the dreams and become mere figments of memory.
But alas the reading list pile up, the first test next week, the lack of sleep, work, deadlines research… shopping for textbooks (I haven’t even gotten to do any shopping for new clothes)
A poor pained writer haunted by here characters…
where have I heard that one before… or has TS. Eliot stopped inspiring those pages of scribble and fragments stuffed in your clip board.
*sigh*
but on language we were discussing it with my professor in philosophy of nature. The great war between Plato and Aristotle, continued by the empiricists and rationalists and brought back from the dead by Chalmers only in argument of language.
Such a silly argument really, a much ado about nothing. How do we get language, are we born with it or is it gained through experience.
As we discussed this, of Chalmers extremely rational approach I could not but after think,
Is music language? Can it be considered such.
True we do not use words in it per se (though one does in song) but in a good piece of music why would you need words when it does itself sing? A good guitarist makes each string sing as well as a good violinist, flutist or pianist.
One can use it for communication, how better than to tell the audience the bad guy is approaching than through a sinister minor chorded melody? How to summon the hero or heighten the romance?
Watch an old silent film and tell me that music is not used as a form of language.
Would Chalmers agree? Perhaps. Is music innate? Perhaps, even tone deaf hum or whistle or enjoy music. We seem to aim for rhythm, feet march into step in a line, following beats, tempos. Dance.
And so I must say that I think perhaps music is language, a wordless language in many ways more powerful than words itself, it can speak things words fail at, while touching us at our inner cores of emotions and souls.
One might argue it is not quite like language, certainly one cannot communicate specific instructions per se, you cannot tell little jimmy to go fetch the milk from the grocer after 4 pm but to express the larger topics where words may fail, perhaps to aid in oru basic speech, music is a language, or an amplifier, aid to regular language.
Whatever you want to call it as a form of our expression, lives and communication music plays a vital role, one that should not be ignored.
