/lit/ - Literature

>>12998812
1st of all, music is incredibly complex and is in many cases *far* more intellectual than some stupid hemingway short story, about lovers fighting by a lake, just as an example. Even the music theory, sound-engineering principles, and psychology involved in pop music is well above what's required to write a short story; that's why 1 song takes a score of people to make sometimes. And that's just modern pop music. Look into jazz, or into all the intonational and melodic concerns of arabian maqamat or indian raga and you'll understand that the art of music has been refined over thousands and thousands of years. It's just a very different art form from literature with wholy different concerns. It can elevate the soul just like literature can.