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The Structure of Musical Discourse: The Problem of the Song Text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2019
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‘Musical discourse’ can be discourse about music, or the discourse of music. My argument belongs to the first, but is chiefly about the second. It is musical discourse about the discourse of music. It uses the language of words to discuss the language of music. Musical grammars can organize words as well as verbalize music; and so its introduction, this prelude, these opening words, use some common structures of the discourse of music to discourse about music.
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