M.Ted, don't give up, please. I believe you are right.

Wilco, in a sense language is a kind of music. Chinese Mandarin requires the use of pitch to designate meaning. We say that French or Italian have musical qualities. I don't think mathematics or physics is very musical although maybe practitioners of those fields might disagree.

Many people who have been indoctrinated with ideas about music through what we used to refer to as musical depreciation classes find some folk music and ethnic sounds discordant. But I don't think any musician sets out to create discordant music. Again, consonance and dissonance are cultural constructs. There are those with perfect pitch who can become ill at what they perceive as out-of-tune instruments.

Music as a courting language? Certainly!

Frank Hamilton