If musical expression were grounded in resemblance to expressive behavior, listeners across cultures would converge on identical emotional attributions, but ethnomusicological evidence shows significant cross-cultural divergence.

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convergence(alternative to consensus-based public reason): A model of public justification that allows appeals to religious reasons, thereby not requiring exclusively secular justifications
cross-cultural divergence(as used in anthropology and comparative philosophy): When people from different cultures interpret or understand something in different ways; the opposite of agreement across societies.
emotional attribution(as used in philosophy of music and psychology): The act of assigning or recognizing an emotion in something—deciding that a piece of music sounds sad, happy, angry, etc.
ethnomusicological evidence(as used in music studies and cross-cultural philosophy): Research and observations from ethnomusicology, the study of music across different cultures and how people in those cultures understand and use music.

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