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Musical Space and Movement, Metaphor or Not?

Hye-yoon Chung 1

1서울대학교

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This essay investigates whether our experience of space and movement in music is metaphorical or not, and thereby illuminates some of the crucial aspects of the nature of our musical experience and understanding. While Budd argues that the movement we experience in music is literally applied to our perception of music as a temporal Gestalt, Scruton argues that musical movement is metaphorical. Scruton’s theory is based on the sharp distinction between sound as a material object and tone as an intentional object. According to Scruton, our musical experience essentially involves metaphor which is characterized by the double intentionality. However, both the distinction between sound and tone, and the double intentionality are not evident in our musical experience. Also, the standard usage in musical community of spatial terms makes it difficult to consider our spatial experience in music as metaphor. Johnson and Larson define musical movement as conceptual metaphor which is founded on our embodied experience of physical movement. They avoid the fallacies resulted from Scruton’s forced dichotomy by accounting for our spatial experience in music through our own existence, but they fail to reflect our ordinary insight about the creative capacity of metaphor. The consideration of other cultures’ description and understanding of pitch relation invites the more refined differentiation of the dimensions of discussion on metaphor concerning musical space and movement.

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