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Ulkar Aghayeva's avatar

>music alone doesn’t give us a story—it can only color it

i would contend with that! music can be representational, though it also depends on the listener's imagination

lovely essay overall!

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Amanuel Sahilu's avatar

Thanks for reading :)

Allow me to second your contention! I suppose when I wrote this I got swept up in word-chauvinism, and withheld narrative structure only to what could be told with words. I don’t really think this is right anymore.

May amend it to something like: “musical stories are affect-narratives.”

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