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Metaphors and Musical Expressiveness

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Many passages and indeed entire works of instrumental music without words or an associated story or program are often heard and described, by many musicians as well as laypersons, as expressive of mental states such as emotions, moods, and feelings.1 Thus it is not uncommon to come across musical passages or works being heard and described as sad, happy, anguished, serene, and so on.

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  1. Saam Trivedi
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  1. University of Sussex, UK

    Kathleen Stock (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy) (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy)

  2. Oberlin College, USA

    Katherine Thomson-Jones (assistant professor) (assistant professor)

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Trivedi, S. (2008). Metaphors and Musical Expressiveness. In: Stock, K., Thomson-Jones, K. (eds) New Waves in Aesthetics. New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227453_3

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