Language and Music

To what extent does language produce, construct, verify (or have any other relationship to) knowledge? To what extent does music produce, construct, verify (or have any other relationship to) knowledge? At any point does language conflict with music?

Something that I struggle with is the dominance of verbiage over music making in a music classroom. Although I do believe that there is a time and a place for language in our music classrooms, does language ever constrict music making and musical understand? Or, is music just a type of language?

I do not have answers… just questions. I would love to see all of your opinions about this.