One immediately helpful distinction is that between expression and expressivity, or expressiveness.
He points to the facts that much valuable music is not expressive and that the equal expressiveness of different pieces would be outweighed in a comparative evaluation by the differences between them in terms of their purely musical value.
Just as apportioning blame is easier when one person is responsible for a crime than when the blame must be divided between a number of conspirators, the success of a solution to the problem of musical expressiveness will be clearer if it can explain the expressivity of pure music.
Sirridge and Armelagos (1977) locate the dancer's contribution to the expressivity of the dance metaphor not in the body's natural expressiveness but in the dancer's use of style.
Maillot's choreography showcases all the delicate expressiveness of her long arms and cantilevered back, and while it maximises the virtuoso power of her supple legs and feet, it also probes the pressures and conflicts she carries with her as a world-class ballerina.
With Russians, what you see is a melodic thread in their dancing, an upper-body expressiveness that brings out another side of the work.
To a lesser extent, homosexuals tend to have gender-atypical careers, hobbies and other interests.Personality tests also show differences, with gay men ranking higher than straight men in standardised tests for agreeableness, expressiveness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism.
It has its own grammatical rules, which can allow for greater expressiveness than standard German.
The real challenge is devising objective criteria to reward expressiveness on the ice that cannot be used as a pretext for judges to favour their preferred skaters the problem that led to the creation of the IJS in the first place.
But by the same token, Mr Boulez warmly praised Berg's "combination of immediate expressiveness with outstanding structural prowess".It is just that combination that makes Berg's works speak to audiences, despite their undoubted complexity.
When Moog Music was bought by a firm called Norlin, he was relegated to minor musical-engineering tasks.He left in 1977, setting up another company, Big Briar Productions, and working on a variety of strange new instruments that he hoped would allow musicians even greater expressiveness.
