In our academic context, study of timbre as a structuring parameter is not a common content in subjects oriented to the development of listening skills (Ear Training, Music Gramatics), except in some analysis scenarios oriented to composition training. Smalley (1994) argues that musical timbre deals with the unfolding and shaping of the sound spectrum, which he summarizes in the term spectromorphology. This approach includes metaphorical terms such as space, movement, and growth, used to describe and analyze the listening experience of electroacoustic music and related instrumental music. These terms seek to promote mimesis to facilitate the conceptualization and understanding of spectromorphological aspects, which leads us to think that his proposal may be based on embodied cognitive resources such as conceptual metaphors and image schemas, based in the metaphor theory (Johnson, 1987). The objective of this work is to show advances in a study that seeks the delimitation of timbre analysis categories, oriented to the development of listening skills, focusing on making explicit links between sound movement categories in Denis Smalley's spectromorphological approach and cognitive resources such as conceptual metaphor and image schemas.
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