Therefore, the distinctively aesthetic emotion aroused by beautiful music requires a cognitive-evaluative component that evolutionary fitness explanations structurally cannot capture.

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Aesthetic emotion(as what formalists believe is produced by significant form): The special feeling you get when experiencing art purely for its beauty and form, rather than for practical or emotional reasons related to real life.
Cognitive-evaluative component(what the statement argues is necessary for appreciating beauty): The thinking and judging part of an experience—basically, your brain actively understanding and interpreting something, not just passively feeling it.
Evolutionary fitness(as used in evolutionary biology and psychology): In biology, how well an organism survives and reproduces in its environment. Traits that help survival and reproduction become more common over time.
Structurally cannot capture(argues that evolutionary explanations lack the ability to fully explain aesthetic emotion): Fundamentally unable to explain or account for—the explanation is built in a way that just doesn't have room for this particular thing.

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