Metaphors in Science and in Music. A Quantum Semantic Approach

摘要

Our current use of metaphors generally involves special forms of allusions that are based on similarity-relations. Such semantic phenomena can be naturally investigated in the framework of quantum computational semantics, where meanings are dealt with as pieces of quantum information. We apply this semantics to a formal analysis of music and discuss the possibility of representing some particular examples of musical themes as musical metaphors for extra-musical meanings.