I especially like this definition, and I find it really interesting that there is no composer in this definition. And it must be emphasized that the listening experience implied by this definition of music is not lacking in both intellectual and emotional components. This project will seem fearsome to many, but on examination it gives no cause for alarm. Hearing sounds which are just sounds immediately sets the theorizing mind to theorizing, and the emotions of human beings are continually aroused by encounters with nature . These responses to nature are mine and will not necessarily correspond with another's.
Emotion takes place in the person who has it.
And sounds, when allowed to be themselves, do not require that those who hear them do so unfeelingly. The opposite is what is meant by response ability. This could be a problem if I were predicting that these would replace the earlier ideas and attitudes, but I am not.