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Musical forces : motion, metaphor, and meaning in music

By Steve , Larson

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0253356822, 978-0-253-35682-6, 978-0-253-00549-6, 0253005493
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10621090 bytes)
Series
Musical meaning and interpretation
Pages
369\392
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Music -- Psychological aspects. Music -- Physiolog

Description

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.

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