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explanation of the power of music, was widely adopted. Treatises
on musical expression proliferated during the late 18th century.
One illustrative example is James Beattie’s Essay on Poetry and
Music as They Affect the Mind (1776), in which the author
rejects the view of music as a representational (imitative) art
form and argues that expression is the true source of musical...
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