The creative action of the composer will always consist in the fashioning of musical elements through their free imagination, influenced by nature. Nature gives to man the organs to sing, the fingers to strike strings, the mental faculty to create a music system and then understand that system through imaginative means. A music system has roots in the simplest relations of sounds in nature. Nature is not musical art because none of the sounds in nature are able to create a musical theme, simply because they are not music. There is no prototype of music in nature as natural music is no music at all; the sounds we hear in nature either are or not music. Music is not ready made, but rather is a sophisticated creation of the human mind. The remodeling of nature comes from the free imagination of the composer who is born by nature to be a composer. Performers emote through instruments; the instrument is a prerequisite to music, made from nature. Composers compose because they are composers. They draw from their own imagination. One is enabled to compose from a specifically musically, technically-trained capacity. The composition of music is constructed in its nature, it is purely objective, contrasting to …show more content…
The beautiful in music does not depend on the accurate expression of feelings. It is the composition itself, apart from all comment, which has to be judged. The understanding of historical relations and aesthetic judgment are two different things. Emotion is an effective response, a reflex. There is no emotion inherent in the music; the listeners are the one’s having the mysterious emotion. It is an error to say that emotions are the content of the music. All that appears in music may be traced to musical causes. It is inevitable that a piece of music sits in relation to its author, however this must be disregarded when considering the aesthetic factor. The musically beautiful is specifically musical, the definition must be in terms of itself. The phenomenon can’t be proved by anything other than the phenomenon. Scientific laws of music exist. There is a science of music that is specific to the medium. Science cannot be based on something that changes, it is fixed. Furthermore, emotions cannot be the basis of the science of music as they change, depending on various circumstances. The process of emotion for Hanslik is an understanding of a