Kivy and Hanslick

My own personal opinion of the whole issue of whether or not emotion is inherent to things is this. With music, it is an artificial creation that takes advantage of underlying traits in people to perceive certain emotions from certain things. So the music in a way is inherently sad, in that it is presented in a way that sadness will be what is heard in the music based on those perceptions and underlying traits in people. When it comes to art however, it is almost always open to interpretation to the viewer and artist. Some artists use sad type paintings to get across positive messages and vice versa. So it is much more situational in that regard.