 Melody allows music to give sensuous manifestation to the freedom of the Spirit by presenting feelings in their temporal unfolding. Hegel does not say much as to how melody achieves its expressive task. He contrasts expression in music and painting, claiming that only the latter is concerned with the exact reproduction of expressive behavior. However, some kind of imitation of human expressions still seems to play a role in Hegel’s account, as he then adds that in music