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Sound, Speech and Music David Burrows 1990 Complementary Texts Barry Truax Mark Johnson Roland Barthes Keywords Design Sound and Musical Design Copyright © 2000-2006 Isabel Pedersen

This is a fascinating study into the nature of sound. The ideas are dense and far-reaching, yet it is brilliantly written in flowing text rich with imagery and analogy. Burrows bases some of his central premises on Mark Johnson’s work, The Body in the Mind and his theories of metaphor and the body.