Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.Eduard Hanslick
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.
Eduard Hanslick
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand foot, necessarily eclipsed great serious music made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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