Screen LibraryMusical performance：a comprehensive approach: theory, analytical tools, and case studies
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Computational music science |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11838-8 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 288 p.): ill. (some col.), music. |
| ISBN: |
9783642118388 (electronic bk.) 3642118380 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | J601 |
| CLC: | J601 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface; Contents; Part I Introduction; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 List of Symbols; 3 Short History of Performance Theory; 4 Oniontology; Part II Structure Theory; 5 What Is Structure Theory?; 6 Tempo Curves; 7 Tuning, Intonation, and Dynamics; 8 Combining Tempo, Tuning, and Dynamics; 9 Articulation; 10 General Performance Fields; 11 The Category of Performance Cells and Hierarchies; Part III Expressive Theory; 12 What Is Expressive Theory?; 13 Emotional Expression; 14 Gestural Expression; 15 Analytical Expression; 16 Analytical Weights; 17 Shaping Operators. This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance is the most complex field of music. It comprises the study of a composition's expression in terms of analysis, emotion, and gesture, and then its transformation into embodied reality, turning formulaic facts into dramatic movements of human cognition. Combining these components in a creative way is a sophisticated mix of knowledge and mastery, which more resembles the cooking of a delicate. |