Music and gesture

Music and gesture

by Gritten, Anthony King, Elaine

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Showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the area of scholarship on musical gesture. This book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance.

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  • Full title :Music and gesture

Summary

Showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the area of scholarship on musical gesture. This book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate
  • Place of Publication:Aldershot
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2006

The Physical Object

  • Description:232 p.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:075465298X, 9780754652984
  • oclc:ocn475230804
  • LC Classification:ML3838
  • Dewey Decimal:781.1

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anthony Gritten and Elaine King; A Theory of Musical Gesture and its Application to Beethoven and Schubert, Robert S. Hatten; Emotive Gesture in Music and its Contraries, David Lidov; Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures, Arnie Cox; Musical Gestures and Musical Forces: Evidence from Music -- Theoretical Misunderstandings, Steve Larson; 'Plays Guitar Without Any Hands': Musical Movement and Problems of Immanence, William Echard; Mahler's Military Gesture: Musical Quotation as Proto-Topic, Raymond Monelle; Drift, Anthony Gritten; Musical Rhythm: Motion, Pace and Gesture, Justin London; Supporting Gestures: Breathing in Piano Performance, Elaine King; Origins and Functions of Clarinettists' Ancillary Gestures, Marcelo M. Wanderley and Bradley W. Vines; Listening in the Gaze: The Body in Keith Jarrett's Solo Piano Improvisations, Peter Elsdon; 'She's the one': Multiple Functions of Body Movement in a Stage Performance by Robbie Williams, Jane W. Davidson; Index.

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