Abstract
This article aims to provide a corpus-based evidence of (a) the ubiquitous presence of metaphors in verbal discourse about classical music and (b) the embodied basis of metaphors for musical motion. We analyzed authentic examples extracted from a 5,000-word corpus of texts taken from peer-reviewed music academic journals. We applied a systematic method to identify metaphor-related words (Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [MIPVU]; Steen, Dorst, Herrmann, Kaal, Krennmayer, & Pasma, 2010) and to label conceptual metaphors (Babarczy, Bencze, Fekele, & Simon, 2010) that reduces the analyst’s bias in the identification of metaphors. Our main findings are: (a) the presence of metaphors in academic discourse on music (29%) is significantly higher than in academic discourse in general (19%; Steen, Dorst, Herrmann, Kaal, Krennmayer, & Pasma, 2010); (b) most of the identified metaphors to describe musical motion are correlational metaphors (Grady, 1999); and (c) metaphors for musical motion are structured in the same way as the metaphors that make up Lakoff’s (1993) Event Structure Metaphor, thus giving rise to the Musical Event Structure Metaphor.
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