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Music at Hand shows how sound, action, and perception are connected in instrumental performance, asking how this integration affects listening, improvisation, and composition. Traversing disciplinary boundaries and diverse musical styles, this innovative book analyzes forms of musical experience that are both embodied and conditioned by technology.
List of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- About the Companion Website
- 1. Beethoven's Prosthesis
- 2. Sounding Actions
- 3. Idiomaticity; or, Three Ways to Play Harmonica
- 4. Voluntary Self-Sabotage
- 5. Compositional Instruments
- 6. Horns To Be Heard
- References
- Index
About the author
Jonathan De Souza is an assistant professor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. in music theory and history from the University of Chicago. De Souza is also an active multi-instrumentalist, playing classical music, folk music, and jazz.
Summary
Music at Hand shows how sound, action, and perception are connected in instrumental performance, asking how this integration affects listening, improvisation, and composition. Traversing disciplinary boundaries and diverse musical styles, this innovative book analyzes forms of musical experience that are both embodied and conditioned by technology.
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De Souza's eye-, ear-, and finger-opening Music at Hand shows us the way into this world of human-machine interdependency. Once we have absorbed its many fruitful lessons, there will be not the faintest whiff of paradox when we declare that we hear with our hands.
