Edson Tadeu Ortolan wrote:

>People!!!  All this discussion would be available if the music was capable
>to represent or to imitate or to paint or to express the Nature, the
>Sensations, the Emotions, the Thoughts, and ALL EXTRA-MUSICAL THINGS!!!
>
>See the Hanslick, Stravinsky, and Boulez's texts about this matter.  We
>need to learn about Semiotic and Semiologic studies.

Appeal to authority.  While each of these people asserted repeatedly that
music could express nothing other than itself.  They never proved it, and
experimental evidence seems to indicte the opposite, that music is not some
self contained black box in the brain, but the delicate coordination of
many different facets of cognition which produce a tapestry of results.

See recent developments in neuro-biology.

Or has classical music become another kind of fundementalism, rejecting the
findings of science when they do not accord with dogma?

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