ABSTRACT
Artworks engender a wide variety of emotions that are also common in everyday life. Greek students learned to read by reading aloud from classic texts such as those of Homer, who was called “the educator of the Greeks.” Artworks have expressive properties. That is, they may have various affective, anthropomorphic properties attributed to them. But these attributions need not presuppose that the creator was in the affective state signaled by the property in question. Although the projection of expressive properties occurs across the arts, it provides an especially useful clue for solving the problem of the relation of the emotions to pure orchestral music. That is, since pure orchestral music lacks reference to characters, actions, and events, it would appear incapable of arousing common emotions like anger and grief.
