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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Hardcover): Robert S. Hatten A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Hardcover)
Robert S. Hatten
R2,154 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R247 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Paperback): Robert S. Hatten A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Paperback)
Robert S. Hatten
R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Musical Meaning in Beethoven - Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (Paperback, New Ed): Robert S. Hatten Musical Meaning in Beethoven - Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (Paperback, New Ed)
Robert S. Hatten
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Hatten s interpretations are at times surprisingly poetic in their expression.... In his book he effectively creates an interaction between aspects of music theory, analysis, aesthetics and semiotics. His work yields some novel insights that deserve careful consideration from anyone in these fields." The Semiotic Review of Books

Musical Meaning in Beethoven offers a fresh approach to the problem of expressive meaning in music. Beginning with a provocative analysis of the slow movement of the Hammerklavier piano sonata, Robert S. Hatten examines the roles of markedness, Classical topics, expressive genres, and musical tropes in fostering expressive interpretation at all levels of structure. Close readings of movements from Beethoven s late piano sonatas and string quartets highlight less obvious expressive meanings and explain how more familiar stylistic meanings are consistently cued from one work to the next. Co-recipient of the 1997 Wallace Berry Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation Robert S. Hatten, editor"

Musical Improvisation - Art, Education, and Society (Hardcover, New): Gabriel Solis Musical Improvisation - Art, Education, and Society (Hardcover, New)
Gabriel Solis; Edited by Bruno Nettl; Contributions by Stephen Blum, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Sabine M Feisst, …
R2,736 Discovery Miles 27 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A musical practice used for centuries the world over, improvisation too often has been neglected by scholars who dismiss it as either technically undissectible or inexplicably mysterious. At different times and in different cultures, performing music that is not "precomposed" has constituted an artful expression of the performer's individuality (the Baroque); a wild, unthinking form of expression (jazz antagonists); and the best method to train inexperienced musicians to use their instruments (the Middle East). This wide-ranging collection of essays considers musical improvisation from a variety of approaches, including ethnomusicology, education, performance, historical musicology, and music theory. Laying the groundwork for even further research into improvisation, the contributors of this volume delve into topics as diverse as the creative minds of Mozart and Beethoven, the place of improvised musics in Western and non-Western societies, and the development of jazz as a musical and cultural phenomenon.

Music and Narrative since 1900 (Hardcover): Michael L. Klein, Nicholas Reyland Music and Narrative since 1900 (Hardcover)
Michael L. Klein, Nicholas Reyland; Contributions by Byron Almen, Robert S. Hatten, Arnold Whittall, …
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive volume offers a wide-ranging perspective on the stories that art music has told since the start of the 20th century. Contributors challenge the broadly held opinion that the loss of tonality in some music after 1900 also meant the loss of narrative in that music. To the contrary, the editors and essayists in this book demonstrate how experiments in approaching narrative in other media, such as fiction and cinema, suggested fresh possibilities for musical narrative, which composers were quick to exploit. The new conceptions of time, narrative voice, plot, and character that accompanied these experiments also had a significant impact on contemporary music. The repertoire explored in the collection ranges across a wide variety of genres and includes composers from Charles Ives and the Pet Shop Boys to Thomas Ades and Dmitri Shostakovich."

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Paperback): Robert S. Hatten Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Paperback)
Robert S. Hatten
R920 R872 Discovery Miles 8 720 Save R48 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded." -Patrick McCreless This book continues to develop the semiotic theory of musical meaning presented in Robert S. Hatten's first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven (IUP, 1994). In addition to expanding theories of markedness, topics, and tropes, Hatten offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of musical gestures, as grounded in biological, psychological, cultural, and music-stylistic competencies. By focusing on gestures, topics, tropes, and their interaction in the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, Hatten demonstrates the power and elegance of synthetic structures and emergent meanings within a changing Viennese Classical style. Musical Meaning and Interpretation-Robert S. Hatten, editor

Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Hardcover): Robert S. Hatten Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes - Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Hardcover)
Robert S. Hatten
R1,380 R1,225 Discovery Miles 12 250 Save R155 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Robert Hatten s new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar... in questions of musical meaning.... B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning challenged and expanded." Patrick McCreless

This book continues to develop the semiotic theory of musical meaning presented in Robert S. Hatten s first book, Musical Meaning in Beethoven (IUP, 1994). In addition to expanding theories of markedness, topics, and tropes, Hatten offers a fresh contribution to the understanding of musical gestures, as grounded in biological, psychological, cultural, and music-stylistic competencies. By focusing on gestures, topics, tropes, and their interaction in the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, Hatten demonstrates the power and elegance of synthetic structures and emergent meanings within a changing Viennese Classical style.

Musical Meaning and Interpretation Robert S. Hatten, editor"

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