Musical forces
Subtitle: motion, metaphor, and meaning in music
By: Steve Larson ; foreword by Robert S. Hatten
Series: Musical meaning and interpretation
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780253356826; 9780253005496
Subjects: Physiological effect; Physiological aspects; Music; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A theory of musical forces. Thinking about music and thinking in music : pattern, meaning, analogy, metaphor and hierarchies ; Something in the way she moves : the metaphor of musical motion ; Melodic forces : gravity, magnetism, and inertia ; A theory of melodic expectation ; Rhythm, meter, and musical forces ; Analyses; title: Evidence for musical forces. Converging evidence : an introduction to part 2 ; Evidence from experiments in visual perception and neuroscience ; Evidence from compositions and improvisations ; Evidence from music-theoretical misunderstandings ; Evidence from a listener-judgment experiment ; Evidence from comparing computer models with production-experiment results; title: Conclusion. Summary and prospects.