Steve Larson

Musical Forces

Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Details how and why music moves us

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Produktdetails

• Musical Meaning and Interpretation
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780253356826
• ISBN-10: 0253356822
• Artikelnr.: 33610676

Autorenporträt

Steve Larson (1955-2011) was the Robert M. Trotter Professor of Music at the University of Oregon and a member of its Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences. He was author of Analyzing Jazz: A Schenkerian Approach.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Introduction
I. A Theory of Musical Forces
2. Thinking about Music and Thinking in Music-Pattern, Meaning, Analogy,
Metaphor, and Hierarchies
3. Something in the Way She Moves-The Metaphor of Musical Motion
4. Melodic Forces-Gravity, Magnetism, and Inertia
5. A Theory of Melodic Expectation
6. Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Forces
7. Analyses
II. Evidence for Musical Forces
8. Converging Evidence-An Introduction to Part Two
9. Evidence from Experiments in Visual-Perception and Neuroscience
10. Evidence from Compositions and Improvisations
11. Evidence from Music-Theoretical Misunderstandings
12. Evidence from a Listener-Judgment Experiment
13. Evidence from Comparing Computer Models With Production-Experiment
Results
III. Conclusion
14. Summary and Prospects
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index