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    It is not the case that Vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion

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    • 1.Hanslick argued in 'On the Musically Beautiful' (1854) that music's content is 'tonally moving forms,' not idealized passion or any extra-musical emotion.
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    • 2.If musical meaning is constituted by purely syntactic relationships between tones rather than semantic reference to emotional states, then grounding music in 'natural language of passion' misidentifies its fundamental nature.
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    • 3.The formalist tradition demonstrates that listeners can engage with music's aesthetic content without any mediation through emotional or vocal associations.
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    • 1.Substantial musical traditions—including purely instrumental counterpoint and absolute music—have no structural dependence on vocal or emotional expression.
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    • 2.If counterexamples exist where music's defining features (harmonic structure, rhythmic complexity) are independent of passionate vocalization, the 'all music' universalization fails.
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    • 1.Any emotion produces movement as a general physiological principle
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    • 2.When movement involves the vocal tract, emotions result in vocalizations
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    • 3.Music derives from an exaggeration of the usual features of vocal emotional expression
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