Quelques réticences sur les théories de la ressemblance en musique

Quelques réticences sur les théories de la ressemblance en musique

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The purpose of this General Aviation paper is to point out the limits of the resemblance theories in music.These aim to justify we can assign emotions to musical renditions by assuming that they arouse emotions akin to those evoked in humans.A sad piece of music would thus have some kind of property which assimilates them to a person’s sadness.These accounts’ main drawback is that they rely on a vague and flawed notion of similarity.They fail to specify in what way music and emotions could mirror one another.

I will point out that Blanks this notion of resemblance that relies on an objectivity prerequisite, may not help us to grasp how to ascribe expressive properties to a musical work accurately.