Improvvisare l’emozione nel suono

After presenting the main theoretical orientations in the contemporary philosophical debate on the topic of musical expressiveness, in this article I will discuss the solution to the question of musical expressiveness that, also considering recent developments in the field of musical psychology, I take as the most interesting and compelling one: the person theory. Finally, by resorting to the enactivist theories of human mind, I will suggest that an improvisational dimension, linked to the concrete situativity of performative (inter)action, is proper to musical expressiveness.

Keywords
Musical Expressiveness, Music and Emotion, Improvisation, Person Theory, Enactivism