Music and GestureAnthony Gritten, Elaine King The contributors consider gesture and body language in all types of music and musicians from Robbie Williams to concert pianists and from string quartets to opera singers. |
Contents
A Theory of Musical Gesture and its Application to Beethoven | 1 |
Emotive Gesture in Music and its Contraries | 24 |
Hearing Feeling Grasping Gestures | 45 |
Evidence from Music | 61 |
Musical Movement and | 75 |
Musical Quotation as ProtoTopic | 91 |
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