Spring Post: Music as Literature

Can we consider music to be literature?

I feel music can be considered literature as much as poems can be considered music.

• Music and Literature are both considered a type of art.
• They can both be put in writing.
• Both tell stories.

Music, poems, novels, etc. are all forms of literature, they are just told in different formats. Music is basically literature with instruments, Poems are forms of literature that rhyme (In most cases at least.), and a Novel is pretty much another word for literature. 

The way i see it is that if it tells a story with a plot, theme and/or tone, then its Literature. 

So what is literature?

I think literature can be defined as peoples point of view. I see literature as anything with a story and a message within that story. If that "story" executes telling it with a meaningful message and an understandable point of view then i consider it to be type of literature.

I actually found an article about what exactly literature is to help explain it better.
Link: What is literature?


What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?

Personally i don't see a "difference" but the way i see is that all these things ( novel, poem, rap, song, opera, and symphony.) are different genres of art. They all have the same blocks but they're all built differently. Same concept, different ways of expressing them.