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Dec 1, 2014 · 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 ...
- Mihailo Antovic
Feb 17, 2015 · 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 highlighted. After this, the author defines several dichotomies whose clarification may be useful in the theoretical research of musical metaphoricity (intrinsic and extrinsic metaphors; musical ...
practice of music back to the earliest written records. (There is, for instance, a brief dis-cussion of metaphors used by Aristoxenus, a fourth-century BCE writer on music, in the introduction to Zbikowski, 2002.) The focus in this chapter, however, is on work that has contributed directly to discussions about metaphor and music and on theo-
Our main findings are: (a) the presence of metaphors in academic discourse on music (29%) is significantly higher than in academic discourse in general (19%; Steen, Dorst, Herrmann, Kaal, Krennmayer, & Pasma, 2010); (b) most of the identified metaphors to describe musical motion are correlational metaphors (Grady, 1999); and (c) metaphors for musical motion are structured in the same way as ...
- Totilė Levandauskaitė, Inesa Šeškauskienė
Sep 25, 2014 · This article aims to provide a corpus-based evidence of (a) the ubiquitous presence of metaphors in verbal discourse about classical music and (b) the embodied basis of metaphors for musical motion. We analyzed authentic examples extracted from a 5,000-word corpus of texts taken from peer-reviewed music academic journals.
- Paula Pérez-Sobrino, Nina Julich
- 2014
This is a view of metaphor as a condensed or elliptical simile. 12. The comparison view is a promising lead in the search for metaphor in music because it appears to avoid the problem of literal meaning and specific reference which plagues the substitution view. Most musical reference, specific or otherwise, depends on similarity.
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Dec 21, 2015 · "The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner."-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University ...
