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    Challenges→Vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion

    If musical meaning is constituted by purely syntactic relationships between tones rather than semantic reference to emotional states, then grounding music in 'natural language of passion' misidentifies its fundamental nature.

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    Fundamental nature(in philosophy and theoretical discussion)
    The essential, core characteristics of something—what makes it what it is at the deepest level.
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    misidentifies(as used in epistemology)
    Wrongly identifies or incorrectly determines what something is; getting wrong which thing is which.
    musical meaning(as used in philosophy of music)
    What a piece of music communicates or expresses—whether that's an emotion, an idea, or something about the music itself.
    semantic reference

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    What a word actually points to or refers to in the real world—for example, the word 'dog' semantically refers to actual dogs, not the idea of dogs.
    syntactic relationships(as used in music theory and philosophy)
    The way musical notes are organized and connected to each other based on rules and patterns, like how one note follows another or how chords are structured.

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