Musical metaphors: Innate and objective

Yüksel, Hatice

As in the recent approach cognition is embodied and metaphor theory of meaning metaphoricity of music is a topic that is mostly studied in cognitive musicology and cognitive linguistics and should be studied from the perspective of cognitive scientists. Musicologists use metaphors to describe the musical system itself in the music theory, music psychologists also use metaphors to describe perceptual facts like a tone is higher as in it resonates somewhere higher in the body or conceptual as in the tone’s place in the musical spectrum. This conceptual part tells us that this kind of metaphor de ...Daha fazlası