ABSTRACT
For music research, the empirical study of cross-modal correspondences (CMC) may hold substantial promise, elucidating the association of musical experience with human experience in other domains. This chapter presents the issue involves the interrelations of cross-modal and affective associations of pitch. Pitch maps onto non-auditory sensory dimensions like spatial height or size. The chapter provides some attempts to understand how these different types of mapping may interact in musical contexts. It addresses the issue involves the ways features of musical pitch other than 'height' may affect associations with space and motion. The chapter discusses the spatio-kinetic associations of static (high vs. low) versus dynamic (rise vs. fall) pitch. It also presents studies suggesting that static and dynamic pitch relationships may imply different, even contrasting, cross-modal spatio-kinetic correspondences, discusses their relevance to the embodied perception of music, and suggests how these static/dynamic dichotomies may reflect upon CMC of pitch in musical contexts.
