Absolutists believe that musical meaning lies
exclusively within the work of music itself.
In other words, to most absolutists music is not about anything because
its meaning is its own and thereby it is a “closed system”. Remember that these absolutists believe that
music’s meaning lies in the perception and understanding or the musical outside
influence.
Another
school of absolute music philosophy called absolute
expressionism disagrees with the main stream of absolutism and teaches that
music’s relationships are capable or exciting feelings and emotions in the
listener and performer. This belief has
become known as “arousal theory”. Some
music philosophers believe that these feelings and emotional meanings are
actually embodied (found in the music) or are designated or referential
(assigned) to the music.
Still another
school of music philosophy called formalism
teaches that music has no meaning at all.
These philosophers believe that music is enjoyed simply by appreciation
of its formal properties or structure and technical construction. These strict formalists believe that music
does not have a subject or meaning beyond the combinations of notes we hear and
that music only speaks or means nothing but else but its sounds and that these
sounds have no relationship to life outside of the music. This philosophical belief is what I call the
“music sound is benign and in a bubble” theory.
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