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Music and the Representation of Emotion |
James O. Young() |
Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Victoria 3045, V8W3P4, Canada |
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Abstract The claim that many musical works are representational is highly controversial. The formalist view that music is pure form and without any, or any significant, representational content is widely held. Two facts about music are, however, well-established by empirical science: Music is heard as resembling human expressive behaviour and music arouses ordinary emotions. This paper argues that it follows from these facts that music also represents human expressive behaviour and ordinary emotions.
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Keywords
philosophy of music
representation
music and emotion
musical formalism
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Corresponding Author(s):
James O. Young,Email:joy@uvic.ca
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Issue Date: 05 June 2013
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