Imagination, Music, and the Emotions: A Philosophical Study by Saam Trivedi EPUB [EN]

2017 | SUNY | ISBN: 9781438467160 | 450 KB | 208 Pages | EPUB
Both musicians and laypersons can perceive purely instrumental music without words or an associated story or program as expressing emotions such as happiness and sadness. But how? In this book, Saam Trivedi discusses and critiques the leading philosophical approaches to this question, including formalism, metaphorism, expression theories, arousalism, resemblance theories, and persona theories.