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The dispute continues as to whether or not art has meaning. Sparshott (1994: 23) says of Malcolm Budd’s, Music and the Emotions (1985), Budd’s book…ended by giving the impression that we lacked any theory of the relation between music and the emotions. On the relation between music and emotions Sparshott wrote, We do not know what such a theory should be and have no reason to seek such knowledge (23). In what sense can we say that a painting or sonata has meaning? Claims are made. Some expressionists and others held that art expresses meaning and others, such as Hanslick, Scruton and the formalists claim that it has no meaning at all. The issue is clear. Either there are no meanings or there are. But the arguments are unclear. There seems to be little advance being made on understanding how to resolve the issue.
There is virtually unanimous agreement that C major is a cheerful key.
Young 1991: 240
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Wittgenstein 1958: #308. cf. #96, 123, 211.
cf. Tesconi 1969.
Shibles 1985: 57–73, 185–210.
Shibles 1970.
Shibles 1971ab, 1973ab, 1974b.
Stravinsky, in Cooke 1959: 11.
cf. Budd 1987.
cf. Patai & Koertge 1994: 149–152.
cf. Beard & Cerf 1995: 12.
cf. “Metaphor as association.” Shibles 1971a: 373, 1971b, 1995a.
Hoaglund 1980: 347.
Kivy 1980: 28 ff., 57, 77.
Palisca 1980: 173.
Price 1988: 215; Levinson 1982: 338.
Koestler 1949: ch. 23.
Ernst Cassirer 1945, 1953–1957.
cf. Shibles 1971a: 70, 165.
Shibles 1971b.
Dewey 1958: 78, 84.
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Shibles, W. (1995). Association Theory of Meaning: A Reconstruction of the Literature. In: Emotion in Aesthetics. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 64. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8579-8_5
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