Reflection
Published in Oxford University Press eBooks • Jun 21, 2018
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Authors:
Roger Mathew Grant
Abstract
This short Reflection considers the question of how music has the ability to elicit pleasure in its listeners. Although some early modern aesthetic theorists held music low in their estimations because of its perceived lack of mimetic capabilities, later eighteenth-century thinkers took music’s inde...