Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. List of tables xi
5. List of figures xiii
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2. The language of music criticism 21
8. Chapter 3. The conceptual motivation of musical motion 41
9. Chapter 4. Metaphoricity as a gradable phenomenon 89
10. Chapter 5. Metaphors in music criticism 99
11. Chapter 6. Key motion verbs in Western classical music criticism 135
12. Chapter 7. The metaphoricity of musical motion expressions 167
13. Chapter 8. Final discussion and conclusions 205
14. References 231
15. Index 245