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en-wikipedia-org-3612		Philosophy of music - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3390	732	51	The majority of opposition to absolute instrumental-based music came from composer Richard Wagner (notable for his operas) and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In his 1997 book How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker dubbed music "auditory cheesecake",[5] a phrase that in the years since has served as a challenge to the musicologists and psychologists who believe otherwise.[6] Among those to note this stir was Philip Ball in his book The Music Instinct [7] where he noted that music seems to reach to the very core of what it means to be human: "There are cultures in the world where to say 'I'm not musical' would be meaningless," Ball writes, "akin to saying 'I'm not alive'." In a filmed debate, Ball suggests that music might get its emotive power through its ability to mimic people and perhaps its ability to entice us lies in music's ability to set up an expectation and then violate it.[8]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3612.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3612.txt