Peter Kivy (October 22, 1934 – May 6, 2017[1][2]) was professor emeritus of musicology and philosophy at Rutgers University.
summa cum laude at the University of Michigan in 1956, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He taught there for the remainder of his career, except for one year as a visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.
His answer is that common emotions have physical behavioral expression in people that can be understood by appearance and imitated in music[where?
Some criticism[example needed] of Kivy's ideas is available in Music, Philosophy, and Modernity (2007) by Andrew Bowie and Filosofía de la Música.