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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Paperback)
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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Paperback)
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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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