Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis 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 ContentsAcknowledgments
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
