Consider language, speech, and thou

Consider language, speech, and thought. Language is the result of need to communicate. Speech is the way we communicate. Thought is what we communicate. Music, performance, and audiation have parallel meanings. Music is the subject of communication. Performance is the vehicle for communication. Audiation is what is communicated. Although music is not a language, the process is the same for audiating and giving meaning to music as for thinking and giving meaning to speech. When you are listening to speech you are giving meaning to what was just said by recalling and making connections with what you heard on earlier occasions. At the same time you are anticipating or predicting what you will be hearing next based on experience and understanding. Similarly, when you are listening to music, you are giving meaning to what you just heard by recalling what you heard on earlier occasions. At the same time you are anticipating or predicting what you will be hearing next based on music achievement. In other words, when you are audiating as you are listening to music, you are summarizing and generalizing content of music patterns in the context you just heard as a way to anticipate or predict what will follow. Every action becomes an interaction. What you are audiating depends on what you have audiated. As audiation develops, it becomes broader and deeper and, thus, reflects more on itself. Members of an audience who are not audiating usually do not know when a piece of unfamiliar or even familiar music is nearing its end. They may applaud at any time or not at all unless they receive clues from others in the audience who are audiating.