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MUZIČKA EKSPRESIVNOST
THE EXPRESSIVENESS OF MUSIC

Author(s): Sanja Srećković
Subject(s): Music, Aesthetics, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: aesthetics of music; expressiveness; emotions;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the relationship between the art of music and human emotions, in particular, with the feature of musical works designated in aesthetic literature as „expressiveness“. After a short presentation of several main attempts at explaining the expressiveness of music in analytical aesthetics, the author offers a clarification of the conceptual confusion within presented theories, and points out their main difficulties and deficiencies.

  • Issue Year: 58/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 19-39
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian