MUSIC AS LITERATURE

I would consider music to be literature. Poems are considered literature and the definition of a poem is "partake in nature of both speech and song". In music, there is speech in the lyrics and in a form of a song. Also, poems sometimes have rhythm, music also has rhythm. The differences between a poem, a rap, a song, an opera and a symphony are some of them have a different tone. For example, a rap is sometimes meant to be rapid fast and a song is sometimes meant to be a lot slower. Another difference is some are meant to be in some form of music. An example would be that a novel is a story, not a song. Also, sometimes poems don't have to have rhythm in the poem.