Analogues of Language Forms

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last posted Jan. 28, 2014, 1:32 p.m.
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Does prosaic language have an analogue in music?

Put it another way:

Given that poetry has often been described in terms of "words-as-music": is there a compositional sonic equivalent of prose?

Put it yet another way.

Which of the following incomplete analogies is more likely to produce a useful solution:

  1. Poetry : <some music> :: Prose : <other music>
    OR
  2. Poetry : Music (all) :: Prose : <something else entirely>

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