A Kaleidoscope of Meanings: A Comment on Philip Barnard "What Do We Mean by the Meanings of Music"

Abstract

In this response paper, I argue that types of meanings in linguistic utterances which lie beyond propositional meaning can hardly be subsumed in only one category called implicational meaning. Many of these levels of meaning allow for restricted comparisons of their correspondence to levels of meaning in musical utterances.

Keywords

• levels of meaning
• music and language