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<blockquote>I don't believe music, even serial music, need be limited to a grammatical-linguistic conception of meaning. I would go further and say that modern art or art in any period, for that matter need not function grammatically. The work of Mallarme and the Symbolist poets tends toward the oblique: they take lexical items (words) and ask that we process them not lexically, denotatively, but at a musical (or at least metaphorical) level. If we were to take a Lerdahlian approach to these writers, we could reach some absurd parallel conclusions: by analogy to Lerdahl's tacitly intentionalist thinking, one could go so far as to try and discredit the Symbolists for being ungrammatical, or say that they produced works that are ''unsuccessful'' because of an anomaly between the language at their surface and the means by which they are to be taken in ([[#Ashby2004|Ashby 1992, 33]]).</blockquote>
Regarding Lerdahl's statement "Comprehension takes place when the perceiver is able to assign a precise mental representation to what is perceived", Amy Bauer responded: "I would like to ask why this mental representation necessarily equates with a grasp of the work's compositional grammar. I also question the corresponding implication that reception of a work is deficient if not founded on conscious perception of this structure". She goes on to "question the corresponding implication that reception of a work is deficient if not founded on conscious perception of this structure", and argues that "to 'hear the sounds as music' is never restricted to parsing a work's concrete, self-referential details, but relies on the necessary mediation of metaphor... Any theory of listening to modernist music must rely not only on conceptual mappings from the temporal to the spatial realm, but on metaphoric projections and connections between music and other experiential domains" ([[#Bauer2004|Bauer 2004, 122]]).
For additional opinions and discussion, see [[#Bauer2004|Bauer 2004]], [[#Boros1995|Boros 1995]], [[#Boros1996|Boros 1996]], [[#Denham2009|Denham 2009]], [[#Dibben1996|Dibben 1996]], [[#Heinemann1993|Heinemann 1993]], [[#Heinemann1998|Heinemann 1998]], [[#Horn2015|Horn 2015]], and [[#Mosch2004|Mosch 2004]].▼
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