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Jerrold Levinson on Music and Eros

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The Relationship Between Music and Eros

There are expressive potentialities in instrumental music that go beyond the echoing or the paralleling of what we do in the voice. For example, it's very common for music, broke music to include sort of sighing figures. It's a quasi-vocal gesture. All music has a tendency to be heard as vehicle of meaning or significance of some kind.

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