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Oct 2, 2014 · Abstract. This chapter explores relationships between music and meaning, and between music and ideas of meaning. It reviews conceptualizations of meaning in general before surveying the ways in which meaning has been attributed to music in the course of Western intellectual history, providing a framework within which the privileging of the ...
This article offers an overview of a research program related to the metaphorization of music. In a short analysis, the omnipresence of metaphors in the written discourse about music is first ...
This article offers an overview of a research program related to the metaphorization of music. In a short analysis, the omnipresence of metaphors in the written discourse about music is first ...
May 31, 2022 · 6 Conclusions. The present chapter has addressed the old question of music and meaning from a new angle: by cross-linking metaphor and blending processes from cognitive linguistics to the problem of intentionality from the philosophy of mind, in the form of a semantic quest for “reference”.
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Eduard Hanslick and others insist that music is just sound or sound structure, that its interest lies in the notes themselves, not in stories that they tell or anything that they “mean.”. Peter Kivy calls music an art of “pure sonic design.”¹ There is, to be sure, explicit program music.
Feb 19, 2015 · After this, the author defines several dichotomies whose clarification may be useful in the theoretical research of musical metaphoricity (intrinsic and extrinsic metaphors; musical conceptualization and metaphorization; absolute and referential musical metaphor; the problem of metaphor in music or metaphor about music).
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Abstract. This article presents an overview of theories of meaning that have been, and that may be, applicable to investigating music, particularly its cognitive dimensions. Some theories have had more impact on the scientific exploration of music's significance than others, which have been unduly neglected. Theoretical and empirical research ...
