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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I don't see how they should be separated. The "music" is the instruments the words are set to. The literature is the words. Words are lit. The words to the song are still meaningful if not set to music.
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Well, not really, and certainly not always. You may have heard of a cappella or talking songs or chants or rap.
Music is a distinct and different art form, and the words are often an integral and inseperable part of a particular whole.
Even when the lyricist is a poet, there are different considerations and sensibilities involved in making a song lyrics vs making a poem, let alone prose.
There is reason that Paul Simon didn't just set the words of the poem Richard Cory to music as-is when he wrote the song.