Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780415998864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 320 str.

Inge Godoy Rolf; Rolf Inge Godoy; Marc Leman

Opis

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement-when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

Spis treści

Foreword Preface 1. Why study musical gestures? 2. Musical gestures: concepts and methods in research 3. Gesture in performance 4: Music and Gestures: a historical introduction and survey of earlier research 5. Gestural Affordances of Musical Sound 6. Music, gesture, and the formation of embodied meaning 7. The Functional Role and Bio-Kinetics of Basic and Expressive gestures in Activation and Sonification 8. Gesture and Timbre 9. Sensorimotor control of sound-producing gestures} 10. Visual Gesture Recognition: from motion tracking to expressive gesture 11. Conductors' Gestures and Their Mapping to Sound Synthesis