Musical Forces : motion, metaphor, and meaning in music / Steve Larson ; foreword by Robert S. Hatten. by Larson, Steve - 2012

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. xvi, [2], 369, [4] p. : ill.; 24 cm. Series: Musical meaning and interpretation. Glossary. Notes, Bibliography. Index. Contents: 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. Bound in black boards; with pictorial dust jacket. As New. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.