Mar 29, 2023
It is universally acknowledged that music results our feelings.
However does it really make sense to speak about music “expressing”,
feelings in any intrinsic sense (that’s, can music itself be glad
or unhappy)? And even when it does, ought to we deal with emotional expression
because the important goal of music, or the criterion by which we
decide musical magnificence? If music does not actually include feelings,
how does it nonetheless handle to have an effect on our emotions so powerfully? And
what’s music expressing, imitating or reflecting, if not
feelings?
If we wish to perceive the character and goal of music, a lot
much less its relation to our ethical and religious lives, we’ve got to offer
some reply to those questions. Thomas Mirus, drawing on the
considered the Nineteenth-century music critic Eduard Hanslick and
psychologist Edmund Gurney, argues in opposition to the traditional view
that music is actually a automobile for emotion.
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