Musical forces : motion, metaphor, and meaning in music /


Steve Larson ; foreword by Robert S. Hatten.
Bok Engelsk 2012
Utgitt
Bloomington : : Indiana University Press, , c2012.
Omfang
xvi, 369 p. : : ill. ;
Opplysninger
Introduction -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusion. Summary and prospects.
Emner
Dewey
ISBN
0253005493 (e-book). - 0253356822 (cloth : alk. paper). - 9780253005496 (e-book). - 9780253356826 (cloth : alk. paper)

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