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To judge from what is said by reputable critics, the goodness or greatness of a work of music appears to be a matter of (i) its exploitation of the medium as such; (ii) the clarity and intensity of its depiction of emotion and mood; and (iii) the unity in diversity of the elements making it up. The second and third, it seems, are of far greater importance than the first.
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© 1986 Hugo A. Meynell
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Meynell, H.A. (1986). Goodness in Music. In: The Nature of Aesthetic Value. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07924-7_6
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