Music and the Emotions

It has often been claimed, and frequently denied, that music derives some or all of its artistic value from the relation in which it stands to the emotions. This book presents and subjects to critical examination the chief theories about the relationship between the art of music and the emotions.

Malcolm Budd

Preface, I The emotions, II The repudiation of emotion, III Motion and emotion in music, IV Sexual emotion in Ideal Motion, V The world as embodied music, VI Music as unconsummated symbol, VII Music as the expression of emotion, VIII Meaning, emotion and information in music, Summary conclusion, Notes, Index