ABSTRACT
Within this volume, music has been connected with physical movement, other communicative media, various technologies, and other domains of human experience or endeavor. Such connections could be seen to implicate a cognitive capacity that contributes much to the distinctive character of human thought processes: analogy. At its core, analogy involves drawing correlations between elements and relationships from two different domains as part of a process of reasoning about the organization or features of one of the domains. Thus knowledge about physical gestures could be used to structure the understanding of a conjunct sequence of musical events, leading to the notion of a “musical gesture.”
