“Regardless of the words, it seems the melodic contour of the song described the nature of the land over which the song passes. So, if the Lizard Man were dragging his heels across the salt-pans of Lake Eyre, you could expect a succession of long flats, like Chopin’s ‘Funeral March.’ If he were skipping up and down the MacDinnel escarpments, you’d have a series of arpeggios and glissandos, like Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsodies.'”
“So a musical phrase is a map reference?”
“Music is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world”.
Bruce Chatwin, citação de John Baxter em ‘The most beautiful walk in the world – a pedestrian in Paris’