PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Clive Bell, Eduard Hanslick, Minor Chord
2 Apr 2016
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December 4th, 2015 music and the emotions. The emotionalist view of music: music expresses emotion, music is good insofar as it expresses emotions, the appreciation of music involves experiencing emotions. We are talking about instrumental music only. What music is about is emotion music powerfully expresses emotion. When we engage with music, we engage with emotions. Music moves us powerfully all kinds of emotions this is what makes it so important to us. Music is just a collection of sounds how, you could wonder, could a selection of sounds or notes could evoke emotion. Hanslick denies that music has power to express emotions. Reason: his points may seem valid, but even after hearing his points, the evidence proves otherwise. A musical work is expressive of emotion e = the work was created as a way of expressing the composer"s emotion e. Composer was feeling sad so he created a musical work to express his sadness (venting out his sadness)
