Music and gesture / edited by Anthony Gritten, Elaine King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gritten, Anthony.

King, Elaine, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Gesture in music.

Performance practice (Music).

Physical Description:

xxv, 232 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

075465298X

OCLC:

62732610