This suggestion raises the specter of an ˜error theory™ of music's expressivity, that is, a theory that all claims of emotional expressivity in music are strictly false. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
The difference between the movement and an expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2006] Reference
Why can't expressivity and power/network be built into matter?. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 20, 2003 - April 26, 2003 Archives] Reference
Can we become more expressive, or more inventive in our expressivity?. From Wordnik.com. [Interview with Michael Spooner] Reference
Moreover, he disputes the grounds of the value of expressivity given above. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Thus music's expressivity cannot be explained in terms of direct expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Style in writing is neither simply scrupulous transparency nor runaway expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-10-01] Reference
Like their ancestors of old, they pushed for expressivity and a deeper level of meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Printmaking - From Revolution To Establishment] Reference
For one focused around the question of music's emotional expressivity, see Kivy 2002, 14-30. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Ms. Radvanovsky is a real Verdi soprano with the full range of volume, expressivity and fervor. From Wordnik.com. [A Fast, Ferocious 'Il Trovatore'] Reference
They content themselves rather with pointing out the ways in which expressivity can be valuable. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Even so, it lacks, for me, a crucial element of great dancing: large-scale personal expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [Morris Toys With Sylvia; San Francisco's Ace Dancers] Reference
One immediately helpful distinction is that between expression and expressivity, or expressiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Wizardy is clearly a quantitative, multigenic trait with variable expressivity and incomplete penetrance. From Wordnik.com. [The genetics of Harry Potter? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Affecting and cohesive, it is performed with powerful expressivity and é lan by Mr. J ä rvi and his musicians. From Wordnik.com. [P] Reference
I believe this to be a serious misunderstanding of what the expressivity of pianos was (and to an extent still is). From Wordnik.com. [Early Music: An Exchange] Reference
Her warm and surprisingly sizable voice came bursting forth and she is no wall flower in the expressivity department. From Wordnik.com. [Local girl makes good] Reference
One worry about such a line is that it seems more suitable to a theory of emotional representation than emotional expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Closely related is the benefit of an aesthetic or artistic appreciation of the expressivity responsible for the negative response. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Though I have used expressivity as an example here, these same points will apply to discussions of musical understanding and value. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
The listener's response depends upon the emotion expressed, and thus the expressivity of the music cannot depend upon that response. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
The expressivity and musicality she brought to the role more than made up for the fact that it was a couple of sizes too big for her. From Wordnik.com. [Castleton Festival opens] Reference
(Can a modern piano diminuendo quickly enough for the adequate expressivity required here? — if the tempo is slow enough it probably can.). From Wordnik.com. [Early Music: An Exchange] Reference
This highly tweakable smiley-generator is part of a computational semiotics project to refine the expressivity of machine-mediated communications. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: November 9, 2003 - November 15, 2003 Archives] Reference
For Davies the response of the appropriate listener upon which the expressivity of the music depends is one of an experience of resemblance (2006, 181-2). From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
Music's emotional expressivity is a philosophical problem since the paradigm expressers of emotions are psychological agents, who have emotions to express. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
The expressivity itself resides in the music's disposition to elicit the imaginative response in us of hearing the music as a literal expression of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
To recap, our emotional responses to music's expressivity can enable us to savor, understand, and even, to some extent, experience emotions in a ˜safe™ way. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of Music] Reference
In a way, Dewey is trying to circumvent the need for a priori notions of beauty or expressivity by embedding artistic activity within a social and communicative framework. From Wordnik.com. [A good idea at the time] Reference
There's a fundamental tradeoff between expressivity and type-safety. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
The animation-quality adds to that, with a lot of expressivity in the drawings. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
Whereas Ana Sophia Scheller, for all her polished technique, shows no expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [Home | The New York Observer] Reference
I fell in love with that spiritual cry, that expressivity and genius at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Notice that this starts to overlap with the expressivity needed on the place-owner side. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference
Basically, the goal is to ease the API usage and uplift the readability/expressivity of our code. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Menuett and Trio enjoys a limber expressivity, often hinting at figures from an Austrian laendler. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
The query capabilities of jQuery use the powerful CSS syntax which gives you a surprising level of expressivity. From Wordnik.com. [Dr.Dobb's - All Articles] Reference
When Hough reaches a high B, he slows for a moment, as a soprano would, for the sake of both expressivity and caution. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
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