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

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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 *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prelude: 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 Subjectivity
5. 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
Postlude
Bibliography
Index of Names and Works
Index of Concepts

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/09/2018
      ISBN13: 9780253037978, 978-0253037978
      ISBN10: 0253037972
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade 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 *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Prelude: 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 Subjectivity
      5. 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
      Postlude
      Bibliography
      Index of Names and Works
      Index of Concepts

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