Can music uncover the text?

[RenegadeHealer]

@bunny, have you ever heard of a constructed language (conlang) called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.? It’s an a priori conlang that uses the 7 tone musical scale as units of sound and meaning. It can be sung, whistled, or played on an instrument. I haven’t read about it extensively, but my understanding is that Solresol dates from something of a golden age of conlanging, when the idea of creating a neutral universal language for all of humanity, that gave no nation of people an advantage in learning and using it, was a popular and respected idea in mainstream Western intellectual circles. And even  this was a secularized reworking of an earlier wave of medieval conlanging, which was concerned with rediscovering the language all humans spoke before the fall of Babel. The pursuit of “proto-Human” is considered as pseudoscientific as the quest for the Fountain of Youth today, but was at one time taken very seriously. The rise of natural human languages as linguae francae without much trouble has since pushed conlanging to the fringes. Modern science has also found little support for the idea that it’s possible to strip language of all cultural baggage (B.F. Skinner was probably the last public intellectual to seriously defend this idea, and he’s almost a century dead.)

I think the idea that vords could be chords to be played or sung has merit, and is compatible with the possibility that they encode meaning as well, or at the very least were designed to evoke a specific feeling in listeners.