# The Expression of Emotion in Music **Opening (not a real abstract):** In this paper I will attempt to analyse the expression of emotion in music. The field of interest is restricted in two ways. First by distinguishing between the expression of emotion in music and the expression of emotion through music. Here we are concerned only with the former; that is, with the emotions that music may be said to express in itself and not with the emotions that may be given expression through the act of composition, or through the performance of music, or through a dramatic context in which music plays a part. This distinction suggests a second restriction, this time on the type of music to be discussed. If there is a problem in claiming that emotions may be expressed in music then it is one which will be at its most obvious and acute in 'pure' music which is unencumbered by drama or words which may be expressive in themselves. For this reason opera, ballet, song, music **Authors:** [[Davies]]