"Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of music’s ability to convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon as was generally accepted during t

[joseph berg]

"Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the
irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of musics ability to
convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon
as was generally accepted during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
lies at the heart of German Romantic aesthetics."

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:diZl-y2R9p0J:www.h-net.org/reviews
/showpdf.php%3Fid%3D11167+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShDBRyFnYo5HVMie3UVn
ffsk04dqwQiGWtAqq_enEAW5WBsYu0eLNBV8BnzAt8IsRQWS9h1bEvcbjqGSAXb3BgtkrvUz0nuou
EUM1NwCFNf8YX51TsYwLva-4vcS2467R1bB0BS&sig=AHIEtbS9fOW5y4_8MYQPWhHQq3ixr-UTnA