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    It is not the case that Hanslick's argument for expressive neutrality fails because it relies on a tendentious example.

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    • 1.Hanslick's argument depends on Gluck's aria being representative of music's expressive character.
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    • 2.Music with a more clearly anguished character than Gluck's aria is easy to find.
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    • 3.Music with a clearly anguished character would resist pairing with a happy text, undermining the claim of expressive neutrality.
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    • 1.Hanslick selects Gluck's aria precisely because its melodic contour lacks the metric urgency and harmonic tension that encode suffering in Romantic convention.
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    • 2.A methodologically sound argument for expressive neutrality requires testing the strongest counterexamples, not the most accommodating ones.
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    • 3.Choosing a stylistically neutral example to establish a universal claim commits the fallacy of incomplete evidence, which Goodman's theory of exemplification would identify as a failure of valid symbolic reference.
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    • 1.Peter Kivy's contention that musical expressiveness is grounded in resemblance to expressive human gesture and vocal contour entails that some music possesses intrinsic expressive character independently of listener projection.
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    • 2.If music can possess contour-based expressive properties intrinsically, then Hanslick's neutrality thesis requires defeating Kivy-style counterexamples, not merely demonstrating one malleable aria.
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    • 3.The deliberate exclusion of paradigm cases of contour-based anguish—such as the Adagio of Beethoven's Op. 132—renders Hanslick's inductive generalization invalid on its own empirical terms.
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