>	I put forth that emotions are perhaps overrated, and at the very least
>_not_ the only impetus for musical creation.

Yeah! I think that often in so called emotional music(romantic/folk) the
emotions that the composer likes to imagine he's expressing are different
from the ones he is actual expresses, which can be as vulgar as ego,
vanity, just a need to sell themselves. Not that I'm saying that those
style's of music are bad, just that the real emotions (yeak! can't believe
I wrote that) come through accidentally/unintentionally and can't be
forced, the emotions that come through are in spite of the composers
efforts not because of them. I guy who goes by the name of Photek once said
in an interview something like, "I try to make my music as cold and
unemotional as possible, yet I think my music has an emotion, I don't
really no what it is". I think it of as sort of melancholy, not depression
or deep sadness, sort of like sadness with out any sense of frustration. I
guess its about sentimentality excepts I extremely sensitive to the
slightest sense sentimentality.