It has sometimes been said that what music conveys to us are feelings of joyfulness, melancholy, triumph, etc. etc. and what repels us in this account is that it seems to say that music is a means to || an instrument for producing in us sequences of feelings. And from this one might gather that any other means of producing such feelings would do for us instead of music. ‒ ‒ To this || such an account we are tempted to reply “Music conveys to us itself!”

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



To cite this element you can use the following URL:


BOXVIEW: http://wittgensteinsource.com/BTE/Ts-310,156[5]_n

RDF: http://wittgensteinsource.com/BTE/Ts-310,156[5]_n/rdf

JSON: http://wittgensteinsource.com/BTE/Ts-310,156[5]_n/json