Hume presents his view of art in the essay On the Standard of Taste, in which he proposes the existence of a standard capable of putting an end to discussions about taste. Such a standard is based upon the existence of certain forms and qualities that naturally please every human being. Hume assures that such a standard corresponds to the opinion of the critic: a man that has notoriously developed his faculties of knowledge, in a way that it allows him to perceive those fine qualities that naturally arouse the pleasure of beauty in human being. Hume, nevertheless, remains silent as to what those universally pleasant forms and qualities are about. I intend to show how Leonard Meyer's theory of emotion in music, developed in his text Emotion and Meaning in Music, can provide great service in this regard.