| Description |
x, 326 pages : music ; 25 cm. |
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Musical meaning and interpretation
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Musical meaning and interpretation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Prelude: from gesture to virtual agency -- Foundations for a theory of agency -- Virtual environmental forces and gestural energies: actants as agential -- Virtual embodiment: from actants to virtual human agents -- Virtual identity and actorial continuity -- Interlude I: from embodiment to subjectivity -- Staging virtual subjectivity -- Virtual subjectivity and aesthetically warranted emotions -- Staging virtual narrative agency -- Performing agency -- An integrative agential interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F minor, op. 52 -- Interlude II: hearing agency: a complex cognitive task -- Other perspectives on virtual agency -- Postlude. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Agent (Philosophy) |
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Act (Philosophy)
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Act (Philosophy) |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Hatten, Robert S. Theory of virtual agency for Western art music. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018 9780253037992 (DLC) 2018023643 |
| ISBN |
9780253037978 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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0253037972 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9780253037985 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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0253037980 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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9780253037992 e-book |
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0253037999 e-book |
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