Basic Gestures for Music Theory, Performance, and Pedagogy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzola, Guerino.

Series:

Computational Music Science Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2026.

Summary:

This book offers a groundbreaking introduction to the role of gestures in music, tailored for educators working with young students before university level.Written in clear, intuitive language and free from mathematical or musical prerequisites, this book makes complex ideas accessible.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Part I What Are Gestures

1 Life Gestures

1.1 Common Gestural Concepts

2 Musical Gestures

2.1 The Three Components of a Musical Gesture

2.1.1 The Musical Space of a Gesture and its Curves

2.1.2 The Skeleton of a Gesture

2.1.3 Connecting a Skeleton S with the Curves in X

2.1.4 Hypergestures

3 Gestures And Content

3.1 A First Gesture for Music

3.2 A Hypergesture in Basic Counterpoint

Part II Teaching Music Theory

4 Fundamental Realities

4.1 The Problem

4.2 Creating Musical Reality

5 Elementary Concepts

5.1 Pitch

5.2 Pitch and Pitch Class Transformations

5.3 Chords and Scales

5.3.1 Tonalities

5.3.2 Riemann's Failure

5.3.3 Chord Symmetries

6 Melodies, Harmonies, Modulation, Counterpoint

6.1 Melodies and Harmonies

6.2 Modulation

6.2.1 Quanta and Pivots for the Modulations Between Diatonic Major Scales

6.2.2 A Second Modulation Model, which is Based on Gestures

6.3 Counterpoint

7 Gestures In Theory And Scores

7.0.1 Duration of Notes and Pauses

Part III Performance

8 Definition of Performance

8.1 The Historical Unfolding of Performance Theory

8.1.1 The Philosophical Performance Theory

8.1.2 The Empirical and Physical Performance Theory and Its Technology

9 Elements Of Performance

9.1 Performance as a Gestural Map Between the Symbolic Score Space and the Physical Space of Sound Events

9.2 Performance Vector Fields

9.3 Special Situations: Tempo, Intonation/Tuning, and Articulation

9.3.1 Tempo

9.3.2 Intonation/Tuning

9.3.3 Loudness

9.3.4 Articulation

9.4 Generating Meaningful Performance

9.4.1 Emotional Performative Gestures

9.4.2 Gestures as Performative Expression

9.4.3 Analytical Expressivity in Performance

9.5 String Quartet Theory

10 Creating Musical Time.

10.1 Adorno and Kramer

10.2 Our Construction of a Gestural Musical Time

Part IV Contents

11 Contents In Music

11.1 What Contents do We Have?

Part V Pedagogy

12 Pedagogy

12.1 Introduction

12.1.1 Performance of One Note

12.2 Developing Music Theory and Performance in Parallel

12.3 Creativity Pedagogy

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-032-10681-8

OCLC:

1591249190