Christopher Peacocke's ‘The Perception of Music’

摘要

Unlike the grasp of metaphor in natural language, there is in music a patent confusion of rolesnbetween the ‘tenor’ and ‘vehicle’ of a metaphor: the expressive content confi gures the metaphoricalnunderstanding of a musical moment as much as the experience of the musical moment shapes hownwe perceive expressive content. This observation prompts consideration of a model (different fromnPeacocke’s) in which a spiralling reciprocity of invertible metaphorical operations gives rise to thenspecifi city of the aesthetic experience. On this account – it is argued – metaphorical processes innmusic function much like those in other art forms.