- by Robert S. Hatten
- 2001
- All 8 lectures online
- Course Overview
- Toward a characterization of gesture in music: An introduction to the issues.
- Embodying sound: The role of semiotics.
- Embodying sound: The role of movement in performance and interpretation.
- Gesture and motive: Developing variation I
- Gesture and motive: Developing variation II
- Gestural troping
- Gesture and agency
- Gesture and the problem of continuity
Musical Gesture
Course Description Contents Course Description Lectures Gesture is movement that may be interpreted as significant. Musical gesture presents more challenging problems, since it must often be inferred from notation and an understanding of performance practice and style. These lectures will assume much of the historical argument and concentrate instead on semiotic and speculative theoretical approaches [...]
