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Focal Impulse Theory
Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke.
To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing \"focal impulse theory,\" Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes.
As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.
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Riffs & meaning : Manic Street Preachers and Know your enemy
\"Despite high and low brow pop culture references in their lyrics, sleeve art, and ... interviews, no concise in-depth study exists of the Manic Street Preachers. This book is in some ways a response to that fact, a study of the band through one particular record\"--Back cover.
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Musical Gestures
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.
R olf Inge Godøy is professor of musicology at the University of Oslo in Norway.
Marc Leman is research professor of systematic musicology at Ghent University in Belgium.
Foreword Preface 1. Why study musical gestures? Marc Leman and Rolf Inge Godøy 2. Musical gestures: concepts and methods in research Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Rolf Inge Godøy, and Marc Leman 3. Gesture in performance Sofia Dahl with contributions from Frédéric Bevilacqua, Roberto Bresin, Martin Clayton, Laura Leante, Isabella Poggi, and Nicolas Rasamimanana 4: Music and Gestures: a historical introduction and survey of earlier research Albrecht Schneider 5. Gestural Affordances of Musical Sound Rolf Inge Godøy 6. Music, gesture, and the formation of embodied meaning Marc Leman 7. The Functional Role and Bio-Kinetics of Basic and Expressive gestures in Activation and Sonification Leon van Noorden Chapter 8. Gesture and Timbre Tor Halmrast, Knut Guettler, Rolf Bader, and Rolf Inge Godøy 9. Sensorimotor control of sound-producing gestures} Sylvie Gibet 10. Visual Gesture Recognition: from motion tracking to expressive gesture Antonio Camurri and Thomas B. Moeslund 11. Conductors' Gestures and Their Mapping to Sound Synthesis Gunnar Johannsen and Teresa Marrin Nakra Contributors Index
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Boccherini’s Body
In this elegant study of the works of the undeservedly neglected composer Luigi Boccherini, Elisabeth Le Guin uses knowledge gleaned from her own playing of the cello as the keystone of her original approach to the relationship between music and embodiment. In analyzing the striking qualities of Boccherini's music—its virtuosity, repetitiveness, obsessively nuanced dynamics, delicate sonorities, and rich palette of melancholy affects—Le Guin develops a historicized critical method based on the embodied experience of the performer. In the process, she redefines the temperament of the musical Enlightenment as one characterized by urgent, volatile inquiries into the nature of the self. A CD of sound examples, performed by the author and her string quartet, is included with the book.
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The Crisis of the Opera? A Study of Musical Hermeneutics
This study in artistic hermeneutics contains objections and critiques that have been generated by the contemporary cultural scenery of musical interpretation, especially related to the opera performances. Nevertheless, as the reader will surely notice, such critique can be very well applied to the entire spectrum of contemporary culture, as the phenomena described here are ubiquitous. Ion Pisos alarm signal-study is essential reading, particularly as it comes from somebody who has over hal.
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Rehearsal Break
Presenting the same text approached from different musical perspectives is a staple of many composers' musical endeavors, as evidenced by the sheer number of songs that are re-recorded by various artists today-a practice that has been common from antiquity in both sacred and secular music.3 Encouraging divergent thinking through listening is important and not difficult to incorporate into daily instructional practices. Repertoire Selection In every area of musical study-historic, research, and applied-thoughtful repertoire selection is crucial. The music selected should avoid perpetuating stereotypes or other social, emotional, or societal issues that might impact a student's participation.6 It is essential to know your students and their ability level to better guide their commitment to discovering deeper implications of the text. Too often, students' natural response is negative, so by insisting on positive comments to start, hopefully they learn to focus on different aspects of the music beyond superficial judgment.
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