Music as Metaphor

<div> <p><i>Music as Metaphor</i> was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>A professor of music for many years Mr. Ferguson here sets forth his theories on how music conveys meaning to its listeners. He identifies and discusses the elements of musical expression - tonal stress and rhythm - and correlates them with the nervous tensions and motor impulses which characterize human emotion. Through this correlation he shows how music portrays universally understood emotional states and ideas. He relates these principles to music criticism proposing a new system for such criticism.</p> </div>