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    Challenges→Music is expressive of emotions because music resembles human expressive behavior

    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.Expression requires intentional artistic mediation; raw recordings lack the composer's deliberate choices that transform material into aesthetic meaning.
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    • 2.Aesthetic expression communicates through formal properties (structure, variation, coherence), not mere resemblance to emotional states.
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    • 3.A weeping recording documents an emotion; a symphony articulates emotional experience, making intention and artistic transformation necessary for expression.
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    • 1.Some symphonies (e.g., program music) explicitly aim for resemblance to non-musical phenomena, suggesting resemblance can be central to expression.
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    • 2.The weeping recording may express grief through its acoustic properties—pitch, tempo, timbre—just as symphonies do, differing only in origin, not essence.
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    • 3.Denying the recording aesthetic expression requires an arbitrary distinction between 'natural' and 'constructed' sounds that lacks philosophical justification.
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