All Outputs (5)

'Meditations on Meyer's Hobby Horses: Levels of Motivation in Musical Signs' (2006)
Journal Article
Spitzer, M. (2006). 'Meditations on Meyer's Hobby Horses: Levels of Motivation in Musical Signs'. Applied semiotics, 2(4), 41-48

Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style (2006)
Book
Spitzer, M. (2006). Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style. Indiana University Press

A critical and analytical study of Beethoven's late works, an original theory of style, and a commentary on Adorno's unfinished Beethoven monograph in the context of his philosophy of tonal music.

'Tovey's Evolutionary Metaphors' (2005)
Journal Article
Spitzer, M. (2005). 'Tovey's Evolutionary Metaphors'. Music Analysis, 24(3), 437-469. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2249.2006.00227.x

Metaphor and Musical Thought (2004)
Book
Spitzer, M. (2004). Metaphor and Musical Thought. The University of Chicago Press

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a... Read More about Metaphor and Musical Thought.

'The Metaphor of Musical Space' (2003)
Journal Article
Spitzer, M. (2003). 'The Metaphor of Musical Space'. Musicae Scientiae, 1(7), 101-120

Pitch space and Riemannian space offer divergent perspectives on tonal space in general. This article suggests that cognitive metaphor theory offers a means of understanding Riemannian space as a metaphorical mapping from pitch space; as an extension... Read More about 'The Metaphor of Musical Space'.