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elements it comprises. Metaphor seems to be an inescapable part of musical descrip-tions that aspire to more than a rehearsal of defined terms. There are, of course, many areas of human experience about which discourse is resolutely metaphorical, emotions being a prominent example. What makes music special is its relationship to language. Both
Jan 1, 2015 · PDF | On Jan 1, 2015, Mihailo Antovic published Metaphor in Music or Metaphor About Music: A Contribution to the Cooperation of Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Musicology | Find, read and cite ...
- Mihailo Antovic
Aug 8, 2018 · Beginning with an example of what musicans call "text painting" (in which music is used to "paint" an image related to the text of a vocal work), I explore the different ways music and language ...
While it is clear that metaphor is used extensively in music education, little research to date has examined how metaphor is applied in music instruction at advanced levels. In such levels, extramusical referents explain not just the structure of music, but the expressive performance features used to make one interpretation more meaningful to listeners than another.
- Mihailo Antovic
For example: MUSIC IS AN OBJECT is another fairly well-known metaphor employed in many fields of human experience. To reason about abstract notions, we frequently employ such words as give (an account) and take (a view) and similar. What is given or taken is usually of the amount that could be put into our hands, like many concrete objects.
- Totilė Levandauskaitė, Inesa Šeškauskienė
Conceptual metaphor, then, concerned patterns of thought, and lin-guistic metaphors were the expression of these patterns through vari-ous linguistic constructions. In subsequent work, Lakoff proposed that conceptual metaphors reflected mappings between different domains (Lakoff 1993). In the case of “Achilles is a lion,” attributes from the
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Reflections on music and meaning: metaphor, signification and control in the Bulgarian case Musical meaning is examined from three perspectives, with ethnographic examples from Bulgarian music. First, music's significance for human life and its very nature are understood through metaphorical predication -for example,