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This is an impressive and invaluable book, and one I am sure scholars from numerous fields will be citing for years to come.

* Music Theory Spectrum *

Highly recommended.

* Choice *

This book puts forth a beautiful account of what it's like to listen to music.

-- Elizabeth Margulis

One of the best studies on the role of conceptual metaphor in music comprehension and theory I've ever read.

-- Mark Johnson * author (with George Lakoff) of Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Weste *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Part One: Theoretical Background
Introduction
1. Mimetic Comprehension
2. Mimetic Comprehension of Music
3. Metaphor and Related Means of Reasoning

Part Two: Spatial Conceptions
4. Pitch Height
5. Temporal Motion and Musical Motion
6. Perspectives on Musical Motion

Part Three: Beyond Musical Space
7. Music and the External Senses
8. Musical Affect
9. Applications
10. Review and Implications
Appendix I. Mimetic Subvocalization and Absolute Pitch
Appendix II. Levels of Abstraction Among Metaphors
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 06/09/2016
      ISBN13: 9780253021601, 978-0253021601
      ISBN10: 025302160X
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      Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      This is an impressive and invaluable book, and one I am sure scholars from numerous fields will be citing for years to come.

      * Music Theory Spectrum *

      Highly recommended.

      * Choice *

      This book puts forth a beautiful account of what it's like to listen to music.

      -- Elizabeth Margulis

      One of the best studies on the role of conceptual metaphor in music comprehension and theory I've ever read.

      -- Mark Johnson * author (with George Lakoff) of Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Weste *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Part One: Theoretical Background
      Introduction
      1. Mimetic Comprehension
      2. Mimetic Comprehension of Music
      3. Metaphor and Related Means of Reasoning

      Part Two: Spatial Conceptions
      4. Pitch Height
      5. Temporal Motion and Musical Motion
      6. Perspectives on Musical Motion

      Part Three: Beyond Musical Space
      7. Music and the External Senses
      8. Musical Affect
      9. Applications
      10. Review and Implications
      Appendix I. Mimetic Subvocalization and Absolute Pitch
      Appendix II. Levels of Abstraction Among Metaphors
      Bibliography
      Index

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