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Elements of music not amenable to music's original functi... — Carmelics

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Elements of music not amenable to music's original function, such as harmony, remain entirely legitimate

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1.Spencer's explanation of music's origin is not a general theory of music's value
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2.Factual hypotheses regarding music's origin are separate from aesthetic norms
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1.If music evolved functionally, structural elements that co-evolved with that function derive their normativity from it.
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2.Harmony in Western music co-evolved with communal and ritual sonic practices, making it functionally entangled, not incidental.
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3.Elements that are functionally entangled cannot be declared legitimate independently of the original function without an alternative normative grounding.
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1.Hanslick's formalism, the strongest defense of harmony's autonomy, was itself historically conditioned by 19th-century tonal practice.
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2.A norm of legitimacy derived from historically contingent formalist aesthetics cannot serve as a universal, function-independent foundation for harmonic practice.
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Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) defended an explanation of the origin of music distinct from Darwin’s. Spencer holds as a general physiological principle that any emotion produces movement. When movement involves the vocal tract, emotions result in vocalizations. Music derives from an exaggeration of the usual features of vocal emotional expression. Thus, “vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion” (Spencer 1857 [2015: 29]). This view of music’s

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