Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.
But I never listen to music while I'm writing.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.