Music and gesture

Description:

"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 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."--Jacket.

subjects: Music, performance,  Body language,  Music,  Psychological aspects,  Gesture in music,  Performance practice (Music),  Musique,  Aspect psychologique,  Gestes dans la musique,  Pratique de l'exécution (Musique),  MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory,  Theory,  Psychology,  Gestures