Philosophy, Music and Emotion explores two issues which have been intensively debated in contemporary philosophy: the nature of music's power to express emotion

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content. Both musicia

It has often been claimed, and frequently denied, that music derives some or all of its artistic value from the relation in which it stands to the emotions. Thi

Music's ability to express and arouse emotions is a mystery that has fascinated both experts and laymen at least since ancient Greece. The predecessor to this b

Is there any artistically important connection between music and emotions? Budd examines the theories of music that support and deny such a correction.