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This document contains an introduction and 12 chapters about music and gesture. It discusses how gesture is integral to musical experiences and performances. Gestures can be emotive, phatic, or diagrammatic. Musical rhythm is linked to bodily motion. Studies found pianists' breathing unconsciously aligned with musical phrasing. Clarinettists' ancillary gestures were also examined. Keith Jarrett's piano improvisations involve symbolic body movements. Robbie Williams' performances effectively combine text, melody, and movement. The role of both sound and visible gestures is emphasized.

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11 Gritten King

This document contains an introduction and 12 chapters about music and gesture. It discusses how gesture is integral to musical experiences and performances. Gestures can be emotive, phatic, or diagrammatic. Musical rhythm is linked to bodily motion. Studies found pianists' breathing unconsciously aligned with musical phrasing. Clarinettists' ancillary gestures were also examined. Keith Jarrett's piano improvisations involve symbolic body movements. Robbie Williams' performances effectively combine text, melody, and movement. The role of both sound and visible gestures is emphasized.

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Gritten & King:

Music and Gesture

MUS2006 - Musikk og bevegelse v2009


Alexander Refsum Jensenius

Introduction, Anthony Gritten and Elaine King


1. A Theory of Musical Gesture and its Application to Beethoven
and Schubert, Robert S. Hatten
2. Emotive Gesture in Music and its Contraries, David Lidov
3. Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures, Arnie Cox
4. Musical Gestures and Musical Forces: Evidence from Music Theoretical Misunderstandings, Steve Larson
5. 'Plays Guitar Without Any Hands': Musical Movement and
Problems of Immanence, William Echard
6. Mahler's Military Gesture: Musical Quotation as Proto-Topic,
Raymond Monelle
7. Drift, Anthony Gritten
8. Musical Rhythm: Motion, Pace and Gesture, Justin London
9. Supporting Gestures: Breathing in Piano Performance, Elaine King
10.Origins and Functions of Clarinettists' Ancillary Gestures,
Marcelo M.Wanderley and Bradley W.Vines
11.Listening in the Gaze: The Body in Keith Jarrett's Solo Piano
Improvisations, Peter Elsdon
12.'She's the one': Multiple Functions of Body Movement in a Stage
Performance by Robbie Williams, Jane W. Davidson

Introduction
Anthony Gritten and Elaine King

Musikkforskningen er i endring

work +
textuality

performing +
performance

musical mind

musical body

Gesture

music and gesture


music as gesture
musical gesture

a gesture is a movement or change in state


that becomes marked as significant by an agent

for movement or sound to be(come) gesture,


it must be taken intentionally by an interpreter,
who may or may not be involved in the actual
sound production of a performance...

A Theory of Musical Gesture and its


Application to Beethoven and Schubert
Robert S. Hatten

Musical gesture

energetic shaping through time that


may be interpreted as significant
any medium or channel
any sensory perception, motor
action, or their combination
Hatten

Meaningful
Any energetic shaping through time, whether
actual or implied, and whether intentional or
unwitting, may be considered as a gesture if it may
be interpreted as meaningful in some way
Hatten

dynamic fields
In Western musical styles a kind of virtual
gravitational field or vectoral space
provides an analogue to the forces working
on the human body in physical space
these dynamic fields are created by two
primary frames. = metre & tonality
Hatten

thematic gestures
Perhaps the most important function of
gesture, however, comes from its
thematization as motivic idea.
Hatten

Hatten

Emotive Gesture in Music


and its Contraries
David Lidov

3 gestural functions
emotive (sad or happy)
phatic (as in emphasis)
diagrammatic (shapes and curves)
Lidov

Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures


Arnie Cox

Mimetic hypothesis
Vi blir kroppslig motivert gjennom
lytte til musikk, og dette er fundert i
multimodal kognisjon

Cox

3 niver
1.imitasjon av den lydproduserende handlingen
2.subvokal imitasjon av den produserte lyden
3.amodal, intern imitasjon av dynamikk

Cox

gesture = graspable (comprehend)


figure, motive
Cox

Figur: ekstern og fiksert


Motiv: dynamisk forandring
Steg: flelse av kroppslig bevegelse
Gest: intern flelse av kroppslig opplevelse

Cox

Drift
Anthony Gritten

Drift
What does music do? What do we do?

Gritten

Musical Rhythm: Motion, Pace and Gesture


Justin London

Opplevelsen av rytme er knyttet


til kroppslig bevegelse
1/10 ~ 2 sekunder

London

G (108 s/m)
G-lp (150 s/m)
Lp (200 s/m)
Sprint (240 s/m)

London

Supporting Gestures:
Breathing in Piano Performance
Elaine King

De fleste puster ubevisst


Blsere ver p pusting
Andre musikere gjr det ikke

King

3 pianister spilte klassisk musikk, og pusten ble mlt.


Ingen av dem var bevisst sin egen pust.
Eksperimentet viste at pusten sammenfalt med
frasering i musikken.
King

Origins and Functions of Clarinettists'


Ancillary Gestures
Marcelo M. Wanderley og Bradley W.Vines

Listening in the Gaze: The Body in Keith


Jarrett's Solo Piano Improvisations
Peter Elsdon

Listening gaze
Kroppsbevegelsene symboliserer kraften og
kampen i improvisasjonen

Elsdon

'She's the one': Multiple Functions


of Body Movement in a Stage
Performance by Robbie Williams
Jane W. Davidson

Tekst + melodi + bevegelse

Davidson

Tekst

Sceneposisjon

Robbies
bevegelse

Publikums
bevegelse

Davidson

Kritikk av Lidov, Hatten, Trevarthen:


lyd/noter kan indikere kroppsbevegelser, men
betydningen av se bevegelser skal ikke underskattes

Davidson

Introduction, Anthony Gritten and Elaine King


1. A Theory of Musical Gesture and its Application to Beethoven
and Schubert, Robert S. Hatten
2. Emotive Gesture in Music and its Contraries, David Lidov
3. Hearing, Feeling, Grasping Gestures, Arnie Cox
4. Musical Gestures and Musical Forces: Evidence from Music Theoretical Misunderstandings, Steve Larson
5. 'Plays Guitar Without Any Hands': Musical Movement and
Problems of Immanence, William Echard
6. Mahler's Military Gesture: Musical Quotation as Proto-Topic,
Raymond Monelle
7. Drift, Anthony Gritten
8. Musical Rhythm: Motion, Pace and Gesture, Justin London
9. Supporting Gestures: Breathing in Piano Performance, Elaine King
10.Origins and Functions of Clarinettists' Ancillary Gestures,
Marcelo M.Wanderley and Bradley W.Vines
11.Listening in the Gaze: The Body in Keith Jarrett's Solo Piano
Improvisations, Peter Elsdon
12.'She's the one': Multiple Functions of Body Movement in a Stage
Performance by Robbie Williams, Jane W. Davidson

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