Musical Gestures Sound, Movement, and Meaning [Paperback]

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movementwhen 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 Gesturesis 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.

Foreword Preface 1. Why study musical gestures? Marc Leman and Rolf Inge God?y 2. Musical gestures: concepts and methods in research Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Rolf Inge God?y, and Marc Leman 3. Gesture in performance Sofia Dahl with contributions from Fr?d?ric 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 God?y 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 God?y 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

Rolf Inge God?yis professor of musicology at the University of Oslo in Norway.

Marc Lemanis research professor of systematic musicology at Ghent University in Belgium.