Description: This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance. The twelve chapters in this volume are organized into a heuristic progression from theory to practice, from essay to case study.
Review Quotes: 'Music and Gesture presents a host of critical issues pertinent to music theory and performance that introduce readers to the colorful territories surrounding music and gesture.' Notes 'These essays are very inspiring reading.' International Review of Sociology and Aesthetics of Music