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Karl Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:03:52 -0600
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Deryk Barker wrote:

>Karl Miller wrote:
>
>>The term Affektenlehre or the theory of affects in music attempted to
>>use th concepts of rhetoric and speaking to assign emotions to specific
>>aspects of music.  Yet why do we see a minor key as being potentially
>>sad vesus a major key being happy.
>
>This is exceedingly culture-specific and I think this is where any
>attempt to 'standardise' a 'language of music' falls to the ground.

If such expression is culture-specific and perhaps specific to a point in
time, is there any "universal" meaning in music?

Karl

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