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Single Idea 20405
[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
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Full Idea
One view explains music's expressiveness as 'associative'. Through being regularly associated with emotionally charged words or events, particular musical ideas become associated with emotions or moods.
Gist of Idea
Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events
Source
Stephen Davies (The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed) [2016], 6.4)
Book Ref
Davies,Stephen: 'The Philosophy of Art (2nd ed)' [Wiley Blackwell 2016], p.142
A Reaction
This is a more promising theory. I take the feeling in music to be parasitic on other feelings we have, and other triggers that evoke them. I'm particularly struck with story-telling (which Levinson and Robinson also like).
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It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write [Davies,S]
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Music isn't just sad because it makes the listener feel sad [Davies,S]
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19 ideas
with the same theme
[personal expression is the essence of art]:
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Art aims only at beauty, of form, of idea, and (above all) of expression
[Winckelmann, by Tolstoy]
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8120
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Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow
[Herbart, by Tolstoy]
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8124
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The highest feelings of mankind can only be transmitted by art
[Tolstoy]
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8121
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Art is when one man uses external signs to hand on his feelings to another man
[Tolstoy]
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8122
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True works of art transmit completely new feelings
[Tolstoy]
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14835
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Artists are not especially passionate, but they pretend to be
[Nietzsche]
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20422
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The experience of expression and communication are intermingled in art
[Croce]
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23934
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The only expression art could have is the emotion resulting from pure form
[Bell,C]
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20420
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The emotion expressed is non-conscious, but feels oppressive until expression relieves it
[Collingwood]
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20331
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It is claimed that the expressive properties of artworks are non-physical
[Wollheim]
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20345
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Some say art must have verbalisable expression, and others say the opposite!
[Wollheim]
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18551
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Croce says art makes inarticulate intuitions conscious; rival views say the audience is the main concern
[Scruton]
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12165
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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings
[Scruton]
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12167
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Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression
[Scruton]
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20417
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Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both)
[Kemp]
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20419
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We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it
[Kemp]
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20418
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The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means
[Kemp]
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20405
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Music may be expressive by being 'associated' with other emotional words or events
[Davies,S]
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20403
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It seems unlikely that sad music expresses a composer's sadness; it takes ages to write
[Davies,S]
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