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  • A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

    Series series Musical Meaning and Interpretation
    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 ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes

    Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert

    Series series
    "Robert Hatten's new book is a worthy successor to his Musical Meaning in Beethoven, which established him as a front-rank scholar . . . in questions of musical meaning. . . . [B]oth how he approaches musical works and what he says about them are timely and to the point. Musical scholars in both musicology and theory will find much of value here, and will find their notions of musical meaning ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Music as an Art

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  • Music as Discourse

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