Music And Gesture

Gritten (postgraduate studies and research, Royal Northern College of Music, UK) and King (drama and music, U. of Hull, UK) compile 12 essays on the topic of musical gesture and gesture in performance. Some of the essays originated in the First International Conference on Music and Gesture at the U. of East Anglia in the UK in August 2003. Authors of the essays--a composer, music critic, and scholars of music and cognitive science at universities in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia--present theoretical work and case studies on gesture and semiotics, the mimetic hypothesis, musical force, immanence, quotation and topic, discourse, bodily movements such as breathing during piano performance and movement by clarinetists, and performers such as Keith Jarrett and Robbie Williams. The book is intended for musicologists, theorists, semioticians, analysts, composers, and performers. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Anthony Gritten, Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal Academy of Music, UK and Elaine King is based in the Department of Drama and Music at the University of Hull, UK