Expression
Abstrak
Expression is a term that has been applied to music in an extraordinarily wide range of senses; philosophers and musicologists alike remain sharply divided on what musical expression is and how it works. This essay gives a historical account of the ways in which music in and of itself—that is, music independent of words—has been regarded as expressive over the past three hundred years by surveying influences spanning Enlightenment theories of rhetoric and the imitation of emotions, Romantic aesthetics of subjectivity and self-expression, and more contemporary versions of contour, arousal, persona, and intransitive theories of expression. This review reveals the lack of a single satisfactory explanatory framework for musical expression, even while confirming musical expression’s enduring importance as “the soul of music.”
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
P. Ekman
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2003
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 1105×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1196/annals.1280.013
- Akses
- Open Access ✓