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Musical Forces: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music

By Larson , Steve;Project Muse

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780253356826, 9780253005496
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6530340 bytes)
Series
UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Theory;MUSIC -- Instru

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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