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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
Aug 1, 2016 · Music experience involves physical, biological, cognitive, and contextual processes. We propose that metaphor acts at key stages along and between these processes. We suggest that metaphor mediates between language, emotion, and aesthetic response. Music is often described in terms of emotion.
- Alessia Pannese, Marc-André Rappaz, Didier Maurice Grandjean
- 2016
Metaphor may be a mechanism that allows extra-musical intentions to transfer into the texture of the music. The process of Authophony (Whalley, 2021) is one in which an intention is transferred into the music, often through the pre-compositional processes undertaken by the composer, but also through the interpretative process of a performer ...
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
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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Musicology, Cognitive Science, and Metaphor: Reflections on Michael Spitzer’s Metaphor and Musical Thought. LAWRENCE M. ZBIKOWSKI. UNiVerSity of ChiCago. Musicology has long regarded the hard sciences with both skepticism and envy.
