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Worringer claimed that modern aesthetics was based upon the be-haviour of the contemplating subject. If the subject is to enjoy a work of art, he must absorb himself into it, make himself one with it. But this empathic identification with the work is only one way of approaching it.
— Sep 23, 2026 01:17AM
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During the interval of a concert, various members of the audience chat to him ( Proust):
But what were their words, which like every human and external word left me so indifferent, compared with the heavenly phrase of music with which I had just been communing?
— Sep 25, 2026 09:14AM
But what were their words, which like every human and external word left me so indifferent, compared with the heavenly phrase of music with which I had just been communing?
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There are tracings recording the increase in Herbert von Karajan’s pulse-rate while conducting Beethoven’s Overture, Leonora No. 3. Interestingly, his pulse-rate showed the greatest increase during those passages which most moved him emotionally, and not during those in which he was making the greatest physical effort.
— Sep 20, 2026 01:18PM
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Rousseau, argued that musical sounds accompanied or preceded speech as we know it.
‘It is not hunger or thirst, but love, hatred, pity and anger which drew from men their first vocal utterances.’ Primitive men sing to one another in order to express their feelings before they come to speak to one another in order to express their thoughts.
— Sep 20, 2026 12:06PM
‘It is not hunger or thirst, but love, hatred, pity and anger which drew from men their first vocal utterances.’ Primitive men sing to one another in order to express their feelings before they come to speak to one another in order to express their thoughts.
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Stravinsky points out that natural sounds, like the murmur of the breeze in the trees, the rippling of a brook or the song of a bird, suggest music to us but are not themselves music: ‘I conclude that tonal elements become music only by virtue of their being organized, and that such organization presupposes a conscious human act.’
— Sep 20, 2026 11:48AM
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Sep 23, 2026 01:17AM
The other is by way of abstraction. Aesthetic appreciation is also a matter of discovering form and order, which requires detachment from the work.
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I find his view of positing empathy and abstraction as mutually exclusive with only one aspect being predominant unconvincing. His also uses a personal anecdote to prove his point ( listening to Mozart after taking Mescaline- enhancement of emotional reaction and impairment of the ability to follow the forms). At least my personal experience with classical music is that the two processes happen simultaneously, the understanding of form and structure etc great enhances the emotional impact.