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Mar 24, 2021 · In this article, we examined the metaphorical and emotional contents of Western classical music using the answers of 162 participants. We calculated generalized linear mixed-effects models, correlations, and multidimensional scaling to connect emotions and metaphors.
- Simon Schaerlaeken, Donald Glowinski, Didier Grandjean
- 2021
Aug 1, 2016 · Our aim here has been to probe this intellectual legacy, and explore potential connections between ancient philosophical intuitions and contemporary empirical evidence, in order to identify the contribution of metaphor to human experience of music.
- Alessia Pannese, Marc-André Rappaz, Didier Maurice Grandjean
- 2016
Professor Ferguson, proposing new theories on how music conveys meaning to its listeners, identifies and discusses the elements of musical expression.
- NED-New Edition
The nearest approximation to such a theory is that of Ferguson, who characterizes music as metaphor in such a way as to highlight this problem. But the body of music-physically no more than a substance of tone and rhythm-may be so constructed as to manifest, in its tensions and motions, compulsions.
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.
- Lawrence M. Zbikowski
- 2008
May 31, 2022 · 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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Jul 24, 2020 · Tracing a history and pre-history of the metaphor and its usage sheds light on the eclipse of more richly textured models of music-making from previous eras as well as on an esthetic predicament within contemporary “historicist” performance.