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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Robert S. Hatten is Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professor in Music at The University of Texas at Austin and President of the Society for Music Theory. He is the author of Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation and Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments IntroductionPrelude: From Gesture to Virtual Agency 1. Foundations for a Theory of Agency 2. Virtual Environmental Forces and Gestural Energies: Actants 3. Virtual Embodiment: From Actants to Agents 4. Virtual Identity and Actorial Continuity Interlude I: From Embodiment to Subjectivity5. Staging Virtual Subjectivity 6. Virtual Subjectivity and Aesthetically Warranted Emotions 7. Staging Virtual Narrative Agency 8. Performing Agency 9. An Integrative Agential Interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 Interlude II: Hearing Agency: A Complex Cognitive Task 10. Other Perspectives on Virtual Agency PostludeBibliography Index of Names and WorksIndex of Concepts

Review

The book represents a major effort and achievement from one the era's most influential music theorists. . . . Essential. * Choice *In A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music, Robert S. Hatten examines agency as it is projected by music and perceived by listeners. . . . Scholars and performers eager to discover imaginative yet authentic ways to experience and understand music will enjoy this book and relish finding themselves within it. -- Ian Gerg * Notes *

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"The book represents a major effort and achievement from one the era's most influential music theorists.... Essential."

Description for Sales People

1. This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers. 2. The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a scholarly career studying the theory of agency in music and compliments the other two books by Robert Hatten published by IUP. 3. The author is internationally known as a leading scholar in the field of music theory and also serves as the well-respected and very active editor for our Musical Meaning and Interpretation series.

Details ISBN0253037980 Publisher Indiana University Press Series Musical Meaning and Interpretation Year 2018 ISBN-10 0253037980 ISBN-13 9780253037985 Format Paperback Imprint Indiana University Press Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Media Book DEWEY 781.1 Publication Date 2018-09-06 Author Robert S. Hatten Pages 334 Language English UK Release Date 2018-09-06 AU Release Date 2018-09-06 NZ Release Date 2018-09-06 US Release Date 2018-09-06 Translator Xiujuan Xie Birth 1955 Affiliation West Virginia University Position Associate Director Qualifications Ph.D. Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black and white; 88 Printed music items Alternative 9780253038005 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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