New Perspectives on Music and Gesture

Anthony Gritten is Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal Academy of Music, UK. His essays have appeared in the journals Performance Research, Musicae Scientiae, Dutch Journal of Music Theory, and British Journal of Aesthetics, and in various edited collections in English and German, as well as in philosophy books and artists' exhibition catalogues. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, he performs across the UK, Europe, and Canada, and has a close working relationship with the organist-composer Daniel Roth, several of whose recent works he has premiered. Elaine King is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Department of Drama and Music, University of Hull, UK. She has published widely on aspects of solo and ensemble performance, including gestures, breathing, rehearsal strategies and social interaction. She co-edited the first volume of Music and Gesture (with Anthony Gritten) and has co-edited Music and Familiarity (with Helen Prior). She is an ordinary member of the Council for the Royal Musical Association (RMA) and Conference Secretary for the Society of Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE). She is an active cellist, pianist and conductor, performing regularly in chamber and orchestral ensembles.

• Introduction; 1: Psychobiology of Musical Gesture; 2: Gestures in Music-making; 3: Coarticulated Gestural-sonic Objects in Music; 4: Musical Gesture and Musical Grammar; 5: Distraction in Polyphonic Gesture; 6: The Semiotic Gesture; 7: Gestural Economies in Conducting; 8: Computational Analysis of Conductors' Temporal Gestures; 9: Gestures and Glances; 10: Imagery, Melody and Gesture in Cross-cultural Perspective; 11: Whose Gestures? Chamber Music and the Construction of Permanent Agents; 12: In the Beginning was Gesture; 13: Motive, Gesture and the Analysis of Performance

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