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May 31, 2022 · Yet over-focusing the music through metaphor can present an interpretive problem in itself. To illustrate both sides of this coin, the present section first analyzes an excerpt from a classical piece of program music through the lenses of conceptual metaphor and blending theories.
- antovicm@hu-berlin.de
Professor Ferguson, proposing new theories on how music conveys meaning to its listeners, identifies and discusses the elements of musical expression.
- NED-New Edition
In music aesthetics, one of the fundamental problems involves the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic musical metaphors. For instance, Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue that metaphor is more than merely a stylistic figure that occurs as a special, decorative, or poetic use of language, and that it constitutes the basic mechanism that ...
Aug 1, 2016 · Specifically, we submit that the relation between music, emotion, and metaphor may take two (alternative but not necessarily mutually exclusive) configurations: one possibility is that CM mediate between the perceptual (bottom-up) component of music and the emotional and aesthetic response to it.
- Alessia Pannese, Marc-André Rappaz, Didier Maurice Grandjean
- 2016
This essay investigates this claim through a review of recent work on metaphor by cognitive scientists. This work both supports and modifies Cook's original claim. The latter portion of the essay presents examples of two applications of research on metaphor to music theory.
Mar 24, 2021 · In a study, when listening to music with different emotional characteristics (e.g., sad and happy), the participants showed distortions in the assessment of the brightness of gray squares according to the metaphors “positive is light” and “negative is dark” ( Bhattacharya & Lindsen, 2016 ).
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The focus in this chapter is on work that has contributed directly to discussions about metaphor and music and on theoretical frameworks for understanding how the domain of music correlates with other conceptual domains, including that of language.
