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Zusatztext 'Music and Gesture presents a host of critical issues pertinent to music theory and performance that introduce readers to the colorful territories surrounding music and gesture.' Notes 'These essays are very inspiring reading.' International Review of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music Informationen zum Autor Anthony Gritten! Head of Undergraduate Programmes! Royal Academy of Music! UK and Elaine King is based in the Department of Drama and Music at the University of Hull! UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. ...
