Abstract Peter Kivy has said that the power of purely instrumental music remains an unexplained wonder. With this larger question in mind, I will consider: (1) the issues in musical aesthetics that led to what Kivy termed his enhanced formalism, (2) his conception of expressive properties in music and how a distinction between having and understanding an emotion can help clarify this issues here (that is, where what we gain in human understanding from having had the emotion is not contained within the experience of that emotion itself), and, most importantly for Kivy’s larger mystery, (3) the way that counterpoint, in an often unrecognized way, can present mimetic content of a kind that can explain the sense of musical profundity that it often awakens. It may turn out that absolute music’s profundity can be explained by the resonances this kind of layered and complex music has with the living, the ordering, the making sense, of a life.

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Kivy 的奥秘：绝对的音乐和形式主义者可以（或可以）听到的内容

摘要 Peter Kivy 曾说过，纯器乐的力量仍然是一个无法解释的奇迹。考虑到这个更大的问题，我将考虑：（1）导致基维所说的增强形式主义的音乐美学问题，（2）他对音乐表现属性的概念以及如何区分拥有和理解情感在这里帮助澄清这个问题（也就是说，我们从情感中获得的人类理解不包含在情感本身的体验中），最重要的是对于 Kivy 更大的谜团，（3）对位的方式，以一种通常未被识别的方式，可以呈现一种模仿内容，可以解释它经常唤醒的音乐深度感。