Music Forces：
Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
著 者：Steve Larson
出版社：Indiana University Press
出版时间：2012年
ISBN号：978-0-253-35682-6
页 数：369页
索书号：J60/L0108
所在库室：锦江校区图书馆9楼教参阅览室1册
内容简介：
Steve Larson drew on his 20 years of research in music theory, cognitive linguistics, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence―as well as his skill as a jazz pianist―to show how the experience of physical motion can shape one's musical experience. Clarifying the roles of analogy, metaphor, grouping, pattern, hierarchy, and emergence in the explanation of musical meaning, Larson explained how listeners hear tonal music through the analogues of physical gravity, magnetism, and inertia. His theory of melodic expectation goes beyond prior theories in predicting complete melodic patterns. Larson elegantly demonstrated how rhythm and meter arise from, and are given meaning by, these same musical forces.
目录：
Introduction
Part 1 A Theory of Musical Forces
Part 2 Evidence for Musical Forces
Part 3 Conclusion
评价：
"Musical: Forces: Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music will find a ready place in academic collections supporting study in advanced theory and musical cognition. It is well written, easy to understand, and full of good examples. The introduction by itself is a fine survey of the dialogue concerning musical meaning. By giving such an introduction, Larson's theories may well be understood as a part of an ongoing discussion."
(Music Reference Services Quarterly)
"It's hard to talk about music without using the language of motion. . . Steve Larson thoughtfully integrates several seemingly disparate disciplinary threads in music theory and cognitive science in an attempt to understand why we experience music this way. His account places three musical forces―gravity, magne- tism, and inertia―at the center of the explanation. April 2013"
(Music Perception)
"The potential benefits of Larson's theory of musical forces include a more explicit understanding of how we make meaning from musical experience, which in turn includes a richer understanding of the aspects of music cognition and metaphoric reasoning . . . "
(Music Theory Online)
"One can read between the lines that the publication of this book was a labor-of-love for Editor Robert S. Hatten, who describes it as 'a fitting memorial to his (Steve Larson's) visionary ideas, his love of music, and his passion for sharing both.'August 2013"
(TRIANGLE MAGAZINE)
