• Music and Emotion: the Dispositional or Arousal theory
  • Buccella, Alessandra

Description

  • One of the ways of analysing the relationship between music and emotions in through musical expressiveness.As the theory I discuss in this paper puts it, expressiveness in a particular kind of music's secondary quality or, to use the term which gives the theory its name, a disposition of music to arouse a certain emotional response in listeners.The most accurate version of the dispositional theory is provided by Derek Matravers in his book Art and Emotion and in other papers: what I will try to do, then, is to illustrate Matravers theory and claim that it is a good solution to many problems concerning music and its capacity to affect our inner states.

Date

  • 2012-05-06

Type

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/article
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
  • Filosofia Analitica

Format

  • application/pdf

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