it is realized in the listener's judgement. Music's expressiveness is certainly response-dependent, i.e. Davies says that expressiveness is an objective property of music and not subjective in the sense of being projected into the music by the listener. Which musical features are more commonly associated with which emotions is part of music psychology. Appearance emotionalism claims many listeners' perceiving associations constitutes the expressiveness of music. Īssociations between musical features and emotion differ among individuals. is between music's temporally unfolding dynamic structure and configurations of human behaviour associated with the expression of emotion.' The observer can note emotions from the listener's posture, gait, gestures, attitude, and comportment. He says, 'The resemblance that counts most for music's expressiveness. Objects can convey emotion because their structures can contain certain characteristics that resemble emotional expression. Davies calls his view of the expressiveness of emotions in music 'appearance emotionalism', which holds that music expresses emotion without feeling it.

Two of the most influential philosophers in the aesthetics of music are Stephen Davies and Jerrold Levinson. Philosophical approaches Appearance emotionalism

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