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Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism

Author : Nina Julich-Warpakowski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027256942

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Motion Metaphors in Music Criticism by Nina Julich-Warpakowski Pdf

The book explores (1) the motivation of motion expressions in Western classical music criticism in terms of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999) in two corpus studies, and (2) their perceived degree of metaphoricity among musicians and non-musicians in a rating study. The results show that while fundamental embodied conceptual metaphors like TIME IS MOTION certainly play a part in explaining why we speak of Western classical music as motion, it is the specific communicative setting of music criticism that determines the particular use of motion metaphors. Furthermore, the perceived metaphoricity of musical motion metaphors varies with participants’ musical background: musicians perceive musical motion expressions as more literal compared to non-musicians, showing that there are individual differences in the perception of metaphoricity.

Perception Metaphors

Author : Laura J. Speed,Carolyn O'Meara,Lila San Roque,Asifa Majid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263049

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Perception Metaphors by Laura J. Speed,Carolyn O'Meara,Lila San Roque,Asifa Majid Pdf

Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and relatively concrete—should be an ideal source domain in metaphor, and a less likely target. But is this the case across diverse languages? And are some sensory modalities perhaps more concrete than others? This volume presents critical new data on perception metaphors from over 40 languages, including many which are under-studied. Aside from the wealth of data from diverse languages—modern and historical; spoken and signed—a variety of methods (e.g., natural language corpora, experimental) and theoretical approaches are brought together. This collection highlights how perception metaphor can offer both a bedrock of common experience and a source of continuing innovation in human communication.

Musical Forces

Author : Steve Larson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253005496

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Musical Forces by Steve Larson Pdf

Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence—as well as his skill as a jazz pianist—to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarifying the roles of analogy, metaphor, grouping, pattern, hierarchy, and emergence in the explanation of musical meaning, Larson explained how listeners hear tonal music through the analogues of physical gravity, magnetism, and inertia. His theory of melodic expectation goes beyond prior theories in predicting complete melodic patterns. Larson elegantly demonstrated how rhythm and meter arise from, and are given meaning by, these same musical forces.

Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology

Author : Annalisa Baicchi,Rémi Digonnet,Jodi L. Sandford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319912776

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Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology by Annalisa Baicchi,Rémi Digonnet,Jodi L. Sandford Pdf

The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception. The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and linguistic perspectives on embodiment and body perception, highlighting the core mechanisms humans employ to acquire knowledge of reality. These processes are based on sensory experience and interaction through communication.

Time, Metaphor and Language

Author : Sarah E. Duffy,Michele I. Feist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107194038

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Time, Metaphor and Language by Sarah E. Duffy,Michele I. Feist Pdf

This book explores how metaphoric conceptualizations of time arise from an interplay between space, context, and individual characteristics.

Metaphor and Musical Thought

Author : Michael Spitzer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226279435

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"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 The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a physical form; that it contains the imagery of paintings or the grammar of language. In these and countless other ways, our discussions of music take the form of metaphor, attempting to describe music's abstractions by referencing more concrete and familiar experiences. Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought uses this process to create a unique and insightful history of our relationship with music—the first ever book-length study of musical metaphor in any language. Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, Spitzer offers an evaluation, a comprehensive history, and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music. And as he brings these discussions to bear on specific works of music and follows them through current debates on how music's meaning might be considered, what emerges is a clear and engaging guide to both the philosophy of musical thought and the history of musical analysis, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Spitzer writes engagingly for students of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for music theorists and historians.

Music as Metaphor

Author : Donald Nivison Ferguson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015000730888

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Music as Metaphor by Donald Nivison Ferguson Pdf

Analysis of the elements of musical expression, correlating musical theme with the nervous tension and impulses which characterize human emotion.

The Meaning of the Body

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226026992

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In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world. “Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics

Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis

Author : Mark Hutchinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317164647

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Coherence in New Music: Experience, Aesthetics, Analysis by Mark Hutchinson Pdf

What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can create? How might an awareness of the distinctive ways in which these experiences are generated and controlled affect the way we listen to, reflect upon and write about this music? Mark Hutchinson outlines a novel concept of coherence within Western art music from the 1980s to the turn of the millennium as a means of understanding the work of a number of contemporary composers, including Thomas Adès, Kaija Saariaho, Tō ru Takemitsu and György Kurtág, whose music cannot be fitted easily into a particular compositional school or analytical framework. Coherence is understood as a multi-layered phenomenon experienced, above all, in the act of listening, but reliant upon a variety of other aspects of musical experience, including compositional statements, analysis, and connections of aesthetic, as well as listeners' own, imaginative conceptualisations. Accordingly, the approach taken here is similarly multi-faceted: close analytical readings of a number of specific works are combined with insights drawn from philosophy and aesthetics, music perception, and critical theory, with a particular openness to novel metaphorical presentations of basic musical ideas about form, language and time.

Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music

Author : Anthony Pople
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521028302

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Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music by Anthony Pople Pdf

This book presents the work of a group of scholars who, without seeking to impose an explicit redefinition of either theory or analysis, explore the limits of both.

Popular Music Theory and Analysis

Author : Thomas Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315465272

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Popular Music Theory and Analysis by Thomas Robinson Pdf

Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title. It will support emerging scholarship and inquiry for future research on popular music.

Music Psychology

Author : Ernst Kurth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315307893

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Music Psychology by Ernst Kurth Pdf

The first edition of Ernst Kurth’s Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931, and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music. Time has hardly diminished Kurth’s standing as an original scholar with a distinctive point of view. Music theorists, both in Europe and North America, regard him as an important figure in the history of music theory. Daphne Tan and Christoph Neidhöfer’s first full translation provides English-speaking theorists the opportunity to delve deeper into his ideas. Indeed, Kurth’s concerns – listening habits and habituation, metaphorical language, the limits of memory, and the role of the body in music experience, to name a few – are shared by many in the field today, especially scholars who work at the intersections of music theory, psychology, linguistics, and related disciplines. And while Kurth’s approach lacks the scientific rigour of modern-day empirical musicology, Musikpsychologie nevertheless presents a source of testable hypotheses for those working in the area of music perception and cognition. This translation of Musikpsychologie also has the potential to inspire a new generation of composers, especially through the topics in the second section (energy, force, space, and matter) and, given the inherently interdisciplinary nature of this book and the number of philosophical and scientific sources Kurth incorporates, it will appeal to those interested in the history of science and particularly in the emergence of psychology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century.

Music and Embodied Cognition

Author : Arnie Cox
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253021670

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Music and Embodied Cognition by Arnie Cox Pdf

Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws on neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the "mimetic hypothesis," the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to non-Western music, Cox’s work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition.

The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139471664

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The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Pdf

A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

The Music of Simon Holt

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783272235

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The Music of Simon Holt by David Charlton Pdf

Bringing together well-known writers with composers and performers, this volume gives a complete overview of Holt's creative work up to 2015.