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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's an extremely odd definition. Using that definition, would you describe listening to a piece of music as "reading" it? You are, after all, "consuming and comprehending the content". I don't think many people would say "I went to a concert and read Beethoven's 5th symphony"!
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I've read music since I was a teen. A lot of people do.
I've both listened to and read and played many classical guitar pieces. I won't pretend that listening and reading them are the same thing but they both have their value.
I think this is an exaggeration of the difference in listening and reading a book. A book is words and reading and listening gives us the same words. We take them in in different ways and no-one really knows if that matters or how much. Music is sound and I doubt anyone will claim that difference doesn't matter.
What about the blind, who have no choice but to listen? Haven't they read the book? They do call it reading in most cases.
Barry
Barry