A theory of virtual agency for Western art music /
1. This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers. 2. The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a schola...
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Musical meaning and interpretation
Musical meaning and interpretation |
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| Summary: | 1. This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers. 2. The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a scholarly career studying the theory of agency in music and compliments the other two books by Robert Hatten published by IUP. 3. The author is internationally known as a leading scholar in the field of music theory and also serves as the well-respected and very active editor for our Musical Meaning and Interpretation series In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 pages) 1 online resource (x, 326 pages) 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 0-253-03799-9 0253037999 0253038014 9780253037992 (e-book) 9780253037992 9780253038012 |
| Access: | Access restricted by licensing agreement |