"Kivy seems to propose that the subject of music is the emotional quality it brings forth in us. This seems to contradict Hanslick, who holds that only things we can voice in words are content and the emotional/aesthetic qualities of music do not belong in this.
Hanslick seems to imply, though, that there is something in music that we simply cannot put into words. What do you think this might be? Do you think he's right, that there is something mysterious and inaccessible to us in music? Does Kivy's proposal of emotional content hold against Hanslick's thesis?"
Music affects us in a profound way. Sometimes, it affects people differently, but I don't the qualities we perceive in music are actually in the music itself. Whether we feel happy or sad when listening to something is something I believe that we pick up. I think the composer knows how to affect us. We derive the content from the music and decide it.
I do think that there might be something we might not be able to ever understand in music. The feelings we experience when we listen to music are not wrong, but they might possibly be a hint of something that we're not fully understanding. For us as we are though, we base the content of the song on how it makes us feel.
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