Metaphor and Musical Thought

Michael Spitzer

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University of Chicago Press
24 December 2015

Dance & Performing arts; Music; History

""The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner.""-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University

The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a physical form; that it contains the imagery of paintings or the grammar of language. In these and countless other ways, our discussions of music take the form of metaphor, attempting to describe music's abstractions by referencing more concrete and familiar experiences.

Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought uses this process to create a unique and insightful history of our relationship with music—the first ever book-length study of musical metaphor in any language. Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, Spitzer offers an evaluation, a comprehensive history, and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music. And as he brings these discussions to bear on specific works of music and follows them through current debates on how music's meaning might be considered, what emerges is a clear and engaging guide to both the philosophy of musical thought and the history of musical analysis, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Spitzer writes engagingly for students of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for music theorists and historians.

By: Michael Spitzer
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 18mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9780226273136
ISBN 10: 022627313X
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 24 December 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Spitzer is professor of music and head of school at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Reviews for Metaphor and Musical Thought

""Spitzer has written an informative and thought-provoking work, leaving us to question not only our methods of music analysis but our very choice of words in speaking and writing about music."" (Notes)

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