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A theory of virtual agency for Western art music /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hatten, Robert S. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Series:Musical meaning and interpretation.
Subjects:
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: from gesture to virtual agency
  • Foundations for a theory of agency
  • Virtual environmental forces and gestural energies: actants as agential
  • Virtual embodiment: from actants to virtual human agents
  • Virtual identity and actorial continuity
  • Interlude I: from embodiment to subjectivity
  • Staging virtual subjectivity
  • Virtual subjectivity and aesthetically warranted emotions
  • Staging virtual narrative agency
  • Performing agency
  • An integrative agential interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F minor, op. 52
  • Interlude II: hearing agency: a complex cognitive task
  • Other perspectives on virtual agency
  • Postlude.