Music and Gesture
eBook - ePub

Music and Gesture

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Music and Gesture

About this book

This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The 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. The twelve chapters in this volume are organized into a heuristic progression from theory to practice, from essay to case study. Theoretical considerations about the interpretation of musical gestures are identified and phrased in terms of semiotics, the mimetic hypothesis, concepts of musical force, immanence, quotation and topic, and the work of musical gestures. The lives of musical gestures in performance are revealed through engaging with their rhythmic properties as well as inquiring into the breathing of pianists, the nature of clarinettists' bodily movements, and the physical acts and personae of individual artists, specifically Keith Jarrett and Robbie Williams. The reader is encouraged to listen to the various resonances and tensions between the chapters, including the importance given to bodies, processes, motions, expressions, and interpretations of musical gesture. The book will be of significance to musicologists, theorists, semioticians, analysts, composers and performers, as well as scholars working in different research communities with an interest in the study of gesture.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781351557795
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. List of Music Examples
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 A Theory of Musical Gesture and its Application to Beethoven and Schubert
  11. 2 Emotive Gesture in Music and its Contraries
  12. 3 Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures
  13. 4 Musical Gestures and Musical Forces: Evidence from Music-Theoretical Misunderstandings
  14. 5 ‘Plays Guitar Without Any Hands’: Musical Movement and Problems of Immanence
  15. 6 Mahler’s Military Gesture: Musical Quotation as Proto-Topic
  16. 7 Drift
  17. 9 Supporting Gestures: Breathing in Piano Performance
  18. 10 Origins and Functions of Clarinettists’ Ancillary Gestures
  19. 11 Listening in the Gaze: The Body in Keith Jarrett’s Solo Piano Improvisations
  20. 12 ‘She’s the one’: Multiple Functions of Body Movement in a Stage Performance by Robbie Williams
  21. Index