ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a great deal of music and musical experience and about the description of music and musical experience has deployed the idea of metaphor. It develop this way of understanding metaphor and situate it within a general functional account of literal word meaning. The chapter shows how metaphor can be understood within this framework. It address disagreement with metaphors and the role of logically embedded metaphors, and shows how an appropriation understanding of metaphor yields an explanation of these phenomena. There are two sources of worry with the appropriation account, which it shares with any broadly Davidsonian account. The first worry is that it seems to leave no room for the disagreements that one have in the application of metaphors. The second worry is that it seems to leave no room for the role of metaphors in logically embedded contexts such as conditionals, disjunctions or propositional attitudes.
