MUSIC AS LITERATURE

                                  Literature is defined as "writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays." Also in a sense music should be added to that list because it is a type of literature. Music is a way of expressing emotion through words with a back-beat to it. In all reality, music is a story expressing how the artist feels or flashes back to a time in the artists life that they felt was significant.