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Topic	Do you agree with this meme pic
averagejoel 08/17/22 6:16:49 PM #29:	MedeaLysistrata posted... can u do this with music as well? as I see it, there are several ways of interpreting this question: could you analyze the lyrics to a particular song in the same way that you analyze any other text? could you find some sort of symbolism in a fictional character listening to a particular piece of music? can you interpret ideas and symbolism in melodies and chords (without lyrics) the same way that you would interpret ideas in words? maybe others too; those three are just the first ones that came to mind the answer to the first two questions is Yes. as for the third... it's sort of a soft "no" with a lot of asterisks. that is; it's much more subjective, and at a certain point it becomes much less grounded in the music itself. music can't convey semantic meaning on its own, but in some circumstances people learn about the context of a piece of music before hearing it and, knowing this, they might be able to hear some of what the creator was going for --- http://error1355.com/ce/averagejoel.html <cite>averagejoel posted [p:967380272] in Do you agr... [t:80133168]...</cite> <quote>MedeaLysistrata posted... </cite><quote>can u do this with music as well?</quote>as I see it, there are several ways of interpreting this question:could you analyze the lyrics to a particular song in the same way that you analyze any other text?could you find some sort of symbolism in a fictional character listening to a particular piece of music?can you interpret ideas and symbolism in melodies and chords (without lyrics) the same way that you would interpret ideas in words?maybe others too; those three are just the first ones that came to mindthe answer to the first two questions is Yes. as for the third... it's sort of a soft "no" with a lot of asterisks. that is; it's much more subjective, and at a certain point it becomes much less grounded in the music itself. music can't convey semantic meaning on its own, but in some circumstances people learn about the context of a piece of music before hearing it and, knowing this, they might be able to hear some of what the creator was going for --- http://error1355.com/ce/averagejoel.html</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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