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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

Chomsky & Schenker? Maybe you're thinking of Chomsky's concept of ...

"Universal Grammar" (our ability to learn understand & create speach) and that languages consist of an infinite number of expressions constructed from a few dozen finite *sounds*.

Then there was a music theorician called Heinrich Schenker who went on to say that we also have a "universal MUSIC grammar".

Hence there was talk that musical composition is intrinsically linked to language and vice-versa.

I remember reading that s/one wrote a book based on these theories...


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