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    Music is expressive of emotions because music resembles h... — Carmelics
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    Music is expressive of emotions because music resembles human expressive behavior

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    • 1.Music can resemble vocal or non-vocal human expressive behavior (e.g., the plodding steps of a sad person or the joyful cries of a happy person)
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    • 2.When music resembles such expressive behavior, it is heard as sad, joyful, or expressive of some other emotion
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    • 1.Music can express emotions it does not resemble: a slow, quiet piece may express dread rather than sadness, which it more closely resembles.
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    • 2.Resemblance is neither necessary nor sufficient for expression, since a recording of weeping resembles grief more than any symphony yet is not expressive in the aesthetic sense.
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    • 1.Hanslick demonstrated that the same melodic material has been set to radically opposed emotional texts across history, undermining stable resemblance-to-emotion mappings.
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    • 2.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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    Although Du Bos was primarily concerned with poetry and painting, he made a significant contribution to philosophy of music. He was an advocate of the resemblance theory of musical expression. According to this theory, music is expressive of emotions because it resembles human expressive behavior. This view is found, in the contemporary world, in Davies (1994) and Kivy (1980). (See the article on Philosophy of Music, 3.1.) Music can resemble either vocal or non-vocal expressive behavior. It can
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