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Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, this book offers an evaluation and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music.

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"Spitzer has written an informative and thought-provoking work, leaving us to question not only our methods of music analysis but our very choice of words in speaking and writing about music." (Notes)

Metaphor and Musical Thought

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    A Paperback / softback by Michael Spitzer

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 24/12/2015
      ISBN13: 9780226273136, 978-0226273136
      ISBN10: 022627313X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, this book offers an evaluation and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music.

      Trade Review
      "Spitzer has written an informative and thought-provoking work, leaving us to question not only our methods of music analysis but our very choice of words in speaking and writing about music." (Notes)

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