«Only one important and transcendental clarification:
Unless we are talking about the classical graphical notation system –if it were the modern one it is not even a graphical language, strictly speaking, but kind of a «glossarified idiolectic cryptography» for each author–, the only point where I must disagree is the third one: music is not a foreign language, unless we’re thinking about the kind of sound productions such as extreme atonality –as a nuclear method, not as a resource– and noise because of noise, all of them getting the public to understand nothing. In that case, yes, I would agree that it is a foreign language, but I’m afraid that is not music because of those very reasons
Music is the same language organ in the brain, well articulated, but devoted to those ineffable aspects of the communication which are based on feelings and emotions and it is an universal competence. Also, the most universalized musical language is tonality, which has a strong natural justification. With thousand of years in its background and natural evolution, tonality is based in an universal system of natural hierarchical order of sounds and structures derived from the physical nature of sound –sixteen first more or less audible overtones– and hence tendent to be repeated everywhere, without a previous education, in every primitive human group, as anthropology and neuromusicology are starting to prove and spread and ethnomusicology had postulated long time ago.
Thus, music is not a foreign language but, contrarily, our inner natural language to narrate and articulate our own feelings and emotions not communicable by means of speech.
So, every time we spread the text we are commenting, I would suggest to replace that third point with:
III.- Music is our natural language to communicate the ineffable.
Or even, establishing a parallel with what is intended to be communicated in the entire text:
III.- Music is Language.» [Agustín Barahona]
«Me produce un doloroso rubor escuchar a los mercachifles en el poder decir que la economía de España está mejorando sólo porque su economía personal ha sido y sigue siendo mejorada a base de robar a los españoles su futuro y su presente, con absoluto descaro, impunidad y alevosía. Identificarse con «España» en esta situación es impúdico, obsceno y una burla desafiante para los millones de parados y familias que estamos aún en peores circunstancias de las que nos dejaron los ineptos del PSOE con la connivencia del resto de los partidos en un Parlamento que no es más que un Votamento sordo a la ciudadanía. Tanto rubor como ver que las encuestas de opinión muestran una superación al PP en votos para el PSOE, que ha demostrado múltiples veces saber arruinar España también en beneficio de sus propios mercachifles mediante el mismo sistema perverso, como si la gente no tuviera memoria histórica alguna o fueran meningíticos de baba. Quien no vea qué es lo que el sistema político que tenemos ha producido, produce y puede seguir produciendo –esto no es nada– es que está ciego o cree que puede vivir de espaldas a la realidad porque ésta no le alcanzará jamás, lo que es completamente falso. Hemos de cambiar este sistema perverso y pervertido antes de que no nos queden ni brazos para hacerlo ni ánima para abordarlo.» [Agustin Barahona]