One should be cautious of all that cheap music that desperately tries to make you cry by striking low with easy and cunning theatrical tricks or contrived devices designed specifically to be tear-jerkers; all of this has nothing to do with Music itself, but rather is a muddle where the Music is no longer on the pedestal, but the Story, the Plot, or the Lyrics. Music, if it is "true" Music, should never stoop to provoke loud weeping or boisterous laughter; it must always maintain a balance and a nobility such that at most it can provoke a subtle emotion or a hint of a smile... an example of this aesthetic form of music is the Allegretto of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony... it's composed melancholy, an inevitable tear falls, but that single tear is worth far more than all the torrents of tears that I can no longer tolerate...