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Metaphor and Musical Thought.(Book Review)
Metaphor and Musical Thought. By Michael Spitzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. [x, 380 p. ISBN 0-226-769720. $60.00.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index.
At various times music has been called "the universal language," or "the most expressive of the arts," and, as such, it is difficult to translate into any other medium. We therefore speak of music in terms of metaphor, mapping the abstract onto the concrete, conveying musical experience by way of analogy with other forms and feelings. Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought provides an impressive and thorough analysis of this process and synthesis of a wide range of fields: ...
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