Introduction: A Little Conversation
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This introductory chapter ponders on the connections between poetry and music, their similarities, and also what sets them apart. It talks about music and poetry from a maker's standpoint, in particular how poetry and music are performed and that poetry turns out to share with music in performance, was connected with other qualities both genres share. These qualities, in turn, have more to do with technical, makerly concerns than with types and occasions of performance. They are more concerned with something intrinsic to how music and poetry are structured than simply with the giving and receiving of a particular experience.