Musical Performance: A Comprehensive Approach: Theory, Analytical Tools, and Case Studies

by Guerino Mazzola

Book Overview

This book is a first sketch of what the overall field of performance could look like as a modern scientific field but not its stylistically differentiated practice, pedagogy, and history. Musical performance is the most complex field of music. It comprises the study of a composition's expression in terms of analysis, emotion, and gesture, and then its transformation into embodied reality, turning formulaic facts into dramatic movements of human cognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642118372
• ISBN13: 9783642118371
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"