Music and Gesture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754652984)

This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance. The twelve chapters in this volume are organized into a heuristic progression from theory to practice, from essay to case study.

Author: Elaine King
ISBN-10: 075465298X
ISBN-13: 9780754652984
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2006
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 250