Emotive Quotes
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Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
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More Emotive Quotes
"Even the most, 'emotive' view of music has to 'be' emotive 'about something distinct', which necessarily involves having a 'theory' about it, for better or worse, in awareness or unawareness, and that a 'musical' something distinct can be cognitively understood as an "emotional experience" only insofar as it is first cognitively understood as a human-communicative manifestation, as an "instance of thought".
benjamin boretz— from Meta-Variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought Red Hook, N.Y. : Open Space, 1995.
Acid rain is a short-hand term that covers a set of highly complex and controversial environmental problems. It is a subject in which emotive and political judgements tend to obscure the underlying scientific issues which are fairly easily stated but poorly understood.
John Mason— In The Causes and Consequences of Acid Rain, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1982, p. 31)
