Consider that music is by its very nature, essentially powerless to express
anything at all, wether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological
mood, a phenomenon of nature ,etc ... Expression has never been an inherent
property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is
nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an
illusion and not reality. It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit
and inveterate agreement, we lent it, thrust upon it, and as a label of
convention - in short, an aspect unconsciously or by force of habit, we
have come to confuse with its essential being.
anything at all, wether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological
mood, a phenomenon of nature ,etc ... Expression has never been an inherent
property of music. That is by no means the purpose of its existence. If, as is
nearly always the case, music appears to express something, this is only an
illusion and not reality. It is simply an additional attribute which, by tacit
and inveterate agreement, we lent it, thrust upon it, and as a label of
convention - in short, an aspect unconsciously or by force of habit, we
have come to confuse with its essential being.
