  He supports this account of music first as an inference to the best explanation.  By the third book of his main work, Schopenhauer takes for granted that the reader has been at least somewhat convinced by the metaphysics for which he has argued. In addition, Schopenhauer holds that people often feel that music is the most powerful of all the arts, affording a “profound pleasure with which we see the deepest recesses of our nature find expression.”  And he draws our attention to what today we might call, ‘the soundtrack effect,’ i.e.,