Parâmetros para o estudo da sinestesia na música

This paper studies the relationship between synaesthesia as a neurological condition and synaesthesic metaphor. It aims at investigating synaesthesia as a way of conscious listening and proposes a synaesthesic listening of the5th movement Joie du sang des étoiles of Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla, including an analysis of the relationship betweenthe elements found in the synaesthesic listening and the structure of the work. Relating analysis and phenomenology, italso suggests a systematization of synaesthesics categories, departing from the sound as the primary sensation among themost common sensations.