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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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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 24 December 2015
      ISBN-13 9780226273136
      978-0226273136
      ISBN-10 022627313X
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Dance

      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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