Metaphors from music criticism.

"A vocabulary of metaphorical terms used to describe voice qualities was drawn from the writings of four music critics. The Ss who were not well informed about music listened to recordings of nine operatic voices and assigned terms from the metaphorical vocabulary to these voices. Many of the words were used with agreement and discrimination. Factor analysis of the results yielded three factors [evaluation, potency, activity] similar to those found in the more general factor analysis of linguistic meaning made by Osgood and Suci." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)