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    Beautiful music arouses an emotion unlike any other emotion — Carmelics
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    Beautiful music arouses an emotion unlike any other emotion

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    • Beautiful music produces an unconscious association with the sexual emotion experienced by our evolutionary forebears
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    • 1.Hanslick argued in 'On the Musically Beautiful' that music arouses no specific emotion but instead sets feeling-states into motion without determinate content.
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    • 2.If musical affect lacks determinate emotional content, it cannot be classified as a unique emotion distinct from others—it fails to qualify as an emotion at all.
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    • 3.The claim that musical emotion is uniquely unlike others presupposes music arouses genuine emotions, a premise Hanslick's formalism directly denies.
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    • 1.Music-induced emotions share the same physiological markers (heart rate, skin conductance, tears) as ordinary emotions like grief or joy.
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    • 2.If musical emotion were categorically unique, it would require distinct physiological mechanisms absent from everyday affective states.
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    Gurney proposes a Darwinian explanation for this. Beautiful music arouses an emotion that is unlike any other because it produces an unconscious association with the sexual emotion experienced by our forebears (Gurney 1880: 116 ff.). However, Gurney points out an important limit of this explanation: the Darwinian account cannot explain why only beautiful music arouses such an emotion, as it posits a connection between musical phenomena in general and the arousal of that emotion (Gurney 1880: 121
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