Re: [microsound] emotions in music

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The short version...

https://www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/aesthetics%20of%20music/hanslick_outline.htm

http://tinyurl.com/2v5jpu

-Adrian


--- Tony Antoniadis <tony.antoniadis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Damian, (and to all others interested)
> 
> I think a good place to look for critical insights about emotions in
> music is Eduard Hanslick's  "On Musical Beauty." In it, he argues
> that
> a musical work's aesthetic value is not contingent on the degree of
> emotional response it produces in the listener, but rather in the
> combinations of its formal elements--tone color, dynamic shifts,
> tempo, etc. (This is probably why Hanslick has fallen out of favor:
> he'a a pure formalist, and he was also only able to write about
> classical music and the forms that preceded it. But "On Musical
> Beauty" is probably the most rigorous approach to the "problems" that
> emtotions pose to our aesthetic evaluations of music, and whether a
> specific kind of emotional response is necessary to music's aesthetic
> value. Hanslick also uses a sort of a Kantian approach that I don't
> necessarily buy into, but it's a compelling book nonetheless.
> 
> best,
> 
> Tony
> 
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