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	Musical Thought

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3-22-2008 5:55 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64e90de6-6191-4d2f-b872-51d8da1b9e5c/2B13A889-8A3D-4BB1-B85C-B7DCD8CF02A4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/notes/v061/61.3weiner.html" href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/notes/v061/61.3weiner.html" style="font-size: 11px;">muse.jhu.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/notes/v061/61.3weiner.html"> 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: music history and
 theory, philosophy, aesthetics, semiotics, hermeneutics, art history,
 linguistics, literature, science, and theology. His critique of the
 literature of metaphor is comprehensive and his theory compelling and
 unique. With the increasing interest in more abstract ways of thinking
 about music, his work should appeal to music historians and theorists,
 and students of philosophy and aesthetics. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/notes/v061/61.3weiner.html">Metaphor and Musical
 Thought. By Michael Spitzer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
 2004.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2B13A889-8A3D-4BB1-B85C-B7DCD8CF02A4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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