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    It is not the case that Music cannot express particular concepts of objects such as the concept of a rose or a poplar tree

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    • 1.Schopenhauer and later Hanslick's debate reveals that musical meaning is partly constituted by culturally established conventions, not solely by intrinsic sonic properties.
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    • 2.Conventional associations between musical figures and specific objects (e.g., the cuckoo motif representing the bird) demonstrate that conceptual content can be reliably encoded and decoded in music.
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    • 3.If conventional coding suffices for linguistic reference to particular objects, rejecting equivalent musical conventions as insufficient requires a special pleading about medium.
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    • 1.Programmatic music (e.g., Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons') demonstrates that musical structures can iconically represent specific natural objects through mimesis.
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    • 2.If musical mimesis can successfully evoke specific objects in trained listeners, then music possesses a representational capacity that extends to particular concepts.
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    • 1.Music expresses ideas through inarticulate sounds
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    • 2.Music can only express ideas and emotions that make themselves known through sounds
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    • 3.Particular object concepts such as 'rose' or 'poplar tree' do not make themselves known through sounds
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