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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zbikowski, Lawrence M.
• King, Elaine
• Gritten, Anthony
• King, Elaine, Dr
• Gritten, Anthony, Dr

Titel

Musical Gesture and Musical Grammar: A Cognitive Approach

Ist Teil von

• New Perspectives on Music and Gesture, 2011, p.83-98

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A case could be made that our notion of musical gesture is a thoroughly metaphorical one. This chapter analyses that such characterizations involve mapping structure between two domains, that is, from the source domain physical gestures onto the target domain sequences of musical materials. It sketches a cognitively based approach to musical structure, using as the author's example Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields's 'The Way You Look Tonight', a tune written for the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' vehicle Swing time. Astaire's gestures as he sings 'The Way You Look Tonight' suggest that this mapping can also be reversed: the sequence of musical materials set out by Kern shape the pattern and structure of Astaire's movements. The chapter reviews recent work by the psycholinguist David McNeill and others on the spontaneous gestures that accompany speech, with particular attention to how the thought processes associated with such gestures correlate with the thought processes revealed through speech.