Cover -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction -- PART 1 A THEORY OF MUSICAL FORCES -- 2 Thinking about Music and Thinking in Music: Pattern, Meaning, Analogy, Metaphor, and Hierarchies -- 3 Something in the Way She Moves: The Metaphor of Musical Motion -- 4 Melodic Forces: Gravity, Magnetism, and Inertia -- 5 A Theory of Melodic Expectation -- 6 Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Forces -- 7 Analyses -- PART 2 EVIDENCE FOR MUSICAL FORCES -- 8 Converging Evidence: An Introduction to Part 2 -- 9 Evidence from Experiments in Visual Perception and Neuroscience -- 10 Evidence from Compositions and Improvisations -- 11 Evidence from Music-Theoretical Misunderstandings -- 12 Evidence from a Listener-Judgment Experiment -- 13 Evidence from Comparing Computer Models with Production-Experiment Results -- PART 3 CONCLUSION -- 14 Summary and Prospects -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- V.