Whistled language is a language, for sure, but it seems a stretch to say it's music. If you're doing that then you may as well just say vocalised languages are

Whistled language is a language, for sure, but it seems a stretch to say it's music. If you're doing that then you may as well just say vocalised languages are music. Your examples on ambiguity are poor IMO, there's a huge class difference between whether a passage of a symphony conveys linguistic meaning and the relatively small variance of interpretation of "love" for a single one of your examples. Also, we know the difference (in general) between those three uses of "love" (romantic, appreciative, sarcastic) from the context; you do get context in music but it suffers even more from wide variance in interpretation. Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' is a great example of musical narrative but the passages portray a generalized emotion rather than language. Is Peter happy in the main theme, or just relaxed, maybe ignorant?