Musical Forces: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music |
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| Author:
| Larson, Steve |
| Series title: | Musical Meaning and Interpretation Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-59634-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $45.59 |
Book Description:
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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,...
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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."