Talk:Musilanguage

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 12 August 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This article reads like original research. I am not a musicologist, although I do pursue an active interest in musical history. I can believe this might be a real theory, but could you please provide citations from peer-reviewed journals (i.e. not reviews of Brown's book) which show that this concept is widely discussed or accepted. Thanks. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 10:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

From what I can find via Google, this appears to be an alternate term for Tonal language, to describe languages such as Thai, yet not widely used. — FREAK OF NURxTURE (TALK) 05:49, Dec. 22, 2005
That would explain why there were so few references to this terminology. Unfortunately this appears to be a drive-by so there's little hope of engaging the author in discussion. Oh, see also Musical language. - Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 20:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


Hey–I'm happy to see that this article has generated a little bit of interest. Before writing this, I wasn't much familar with Wikipedia, and I'm still a bit astounded that anyone found the article and found it worthy of comment; that in and of itself seems like a cause for enthusiasm to me. A bit of background on the situation: I'm an undergrad whose primary interest is music, and I wrote it for an evolutionary linguistics class that I took this past quarter (contributing to Wikipedia was part of the project). It is indeed based solely on Brown's research, and I would not contest that it could indeed be made more appropriate for a wikipedian context, both by filling out the references and giving it more of an encylopedic flavor in its content (it undeniably has some of the elements of a persuasive essay). I see it as a first step to a good encyclopedic analysis of this topic, and I would very much encourage anyone with more extensive knowledge to modify it as they see fit. Thanks to Uncle G for adding some (very cool) links to the bibliography, and I hope that they can be of use to anyone interested in further developing this. I have no plans to do so myself at the moment, but this may well change in the future, particularly if someone else contributes some new tidbit that sparks further interest. -Sincerely, the author

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