Steve LarsonMusical Forces
Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
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
