Fwd: Does music technically qualify as a language?

[Barbara Johnstone]

>From another perspective (no longer really up to date in linguistics,
but interesting nonetheless), there are Leonard Bernstein's Norton
Lectures from the 1970s.  Bernstein became interested in Chomskyan
"Universal Grammar" and explored what it would mean for music.  He
used the concept loosely, and many linguists are skeptical about the
idea of universal grammar, but the lectures are fascinating.  The
lectures are available as a book or on CD or DVD, I think.  Also Ray
Jakendoff has explored music from a Chomskyan linguistics perspective.

>From our library catalog:

Leonard Bernstein at Harvard "the unanswered question," Norton lectures 1973.

"In these lectures Leonard Bernstein examines music from every age and
place in the search for a worldwide, innate musical grammar."

-- 
Barbara Johnstone
Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics/Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave.
Baker Hall 259
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
bj4 at andrew.cmu.edu
http://works.bepress.com/barbara_johnstone/

January – July 2011:
Visiting Fellow
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Albertstraße 19
D-79104 Freiburg i.Br.