Music And Shape (studies In Musical Perf As Creative Prac)
by Helen M. Prior /
2017 / English / PDF
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Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in
classical, popular, jazz and world musics use it to help them
rehearse, teach and think about what they do. Yet why is a word
that seems to require something to see or to touch so useful to
describe something that sounds?
Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in
classical, popular, jazz and world musics use it to help them
rehearse, teach and think about what they do. Yet why is a word
that seems to require something to see or to touch so useful to
describe something that sounds?Music and Shape
Music and Shape examines numerous aspects of this
surprisingly close relationship, with contributions from scholars
and musicians, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and synaesthetes. The
main chapters are provided by leading scholars from music
psychology, music analysis, music therapy, dance, classical, jazz
and popular music who examine how shape makes sense in music from
their varied points of view. Here we see shape providing a key
notion for the teaching and practice of performance nuance or
prosody; as a way of making relationships between sound and body
movement; as a link between improvisational as well as
compositional design and listener response, and between notation,
sound and cognition; and as a unimodal quality linked to vitality
affects. Reflections from practitioners, between the chapters,
offer complementary insights, embracing musical form, performance
and composition styles, body movement, rhythm, harmony, timbre,
narrative, emotions and feelings, and beginnings and endings.
examines numerous aspects of this
surprisingly close relationship, with contributions from scholars
and musicians, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and synaesthetes. The
main chapters are provided by leading scholars from music
psychology, music analysis, music therapy, dance, classical, jazz
and popular music who examine how shape makes sense in music from
their varied points of view. Here we see shape providing a key
notion for the teaching and practice of performance nuance or
prosody; as a way of making relationships between sound and body
movement; as a link between improvisational as well as
compositional design and listener response, and between notation,
sound and cognition; and as a unimodal quality linked to vitality
affects. Reflections from practitioners, between the chapters,
offer complementary insights, embracing musical form, performance
and composition styles, body movement, rhythm, harmony, timbre,
narrative, emotions and feelings, and beginnings and endings.Music and Shape
Music and Shape opens up new perspectives on musical
performance, music psychology and music analysis, making explicit
and open to investigation a vital factor in musical thinking and
experience previously viewed merely as a metaphor.
opens up new perspectives on musical
performance, music psychology and music analysis, making explicit
and open to investigation a vital factor in musical thinking and
experience previously viewed merely as a metaphor.
