 Hanslick’s positive view is that musical value is specifically musical, independent from any relation to other art forms, as well as to any concept derived from extra-musical reality. He does not give up talk of musical content entirely, but rather holds that this content is constituted by formal structures, “sonically moved forms” (tönend bewegte Formen; Hanslick 1854 [2018]: chapter 3; an earlier, influential translation [Hanslick 1986] renders the expression as “tonally moving forms”).