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Feb 6, 2014 · The aesthetic realist interprets many descriptions of music as metaphorical descriptions of aesthetic properties of music. I argue that aesthetic realism requires that nonaesthetic words are used to express both aesthetic and nonaesthetic concepts. But having distinguished the concepts, some plausible account must be given of their relation.
Oct 25, 2007 · The aesthetic metaphor thesis is not itself a theory about the nature of music, but it does, however, invite an aesthetic theory of music according to which the function of music is to generate aesthetic properties that depend on sounds.17 Such aesthetic properties include beauty, elegance, daintiness, and, crucially, a host of aesthetic properties that we describe metaphorically.
- Nick Zangwill
- 2007
Jul 1, 2009 · The metaphor is exploited in the perception, rather than being represented. This account is developed and deployed to address some classical issues about music, including Wagner's point that the emotions expressed need not be those of a particular person on a particular occasion, and the widely accepted point that what is significant in a piece of music cannot be translated into any other medium.
- Christopher Peacocke
- 2009
May 31, 2022 · With an aim to suggest that the use of metaphor at the same time constrains the broad array of musical interpretations and allows for vast creativity in the music reception process, the model proposes six hierarchically interrelated levels of meaning generation that motivate musical metaphor, spanning perceptual constraints, cross-modal interactions, affective responses, construction of ...
- antovicm@hu-berlin.de
Aug 1, 2016 · Metaphors and CM may act as a bidirectional conduit between music perception and emotion experience, contributing to the transition from the former to the latter (e.g. in a listener being moved as a result of perceiving emotion as being expressed in music), or from the latter to the former (e.g. in a composer adopting certain metaphoric or stylistic devices in order that the score may express ...
- Alessia Pannese, Marc-André Rappaz, Didier Maurice Grandjean
- 2016
Oct 22, 2007 · Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature of music and our experience of it. Like any ‘philosophy of X’, it presupposes a knowledge of its target area of study. However, unlike philosophy of science, say, the philosophy of an artistic practice, such as music, is one that most people have a significant ...
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Mar 26, 1999 · The metaphors of "high" and "low" are only the most basic in a series of metaphors that are indispensable to our construction of meaning - and Scruton argues that music does have meaning. This is identified as a tertiary quality of music. Thus a work that we may describe as "sad" does not possess "sadness" as a primary quality nor even a ...
