Re: "Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of mu

[Cheerskep]

In a message dated 9/6/12 1:48:08 AM, art...@gmail.com writes:


> "Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the
> irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of musics ability to
> convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon
> as was generally accepted during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
> lies at the heart of German Romantic aesthetics."
> 
> Yet another instance of vacuity because of the lack of a description of 
what the speaker's central notion is -- in this instance, the notion of 
"meaning".