Music and Shape -

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Résumé :
Shape is a concept widely used in talk about music. Musicians in classical, popular, jazz and world musics use it to help them rehearse, teach and think about what they do. Yet why is a word that seems to require something to see or to touch so useful to describe something that sounds? Music and Shape examines numerous aspects of this surprisingly close relationship, with contributions from scholars and musicians, artists, dancers, filmmakers, and synaesthetes. The main chapters are provided by leading scholars from music psychology, music analysis, music therapy, dance, classical, jazz and popular music who examine how shape makes sense in music from their varied points of view. Here we see shape providing a key notion for the teaching and practice of performance nuance or prosody...

Biographie:

• Contents


• List of Contributors


• About the Companion Website


• Introduction: The malleability of shape - Daniel Leech-Wilkinson and Helen M. Prior


• Section I: Shapes mapped


• 1. Reflection - Evelyn Glennie


• 2. Postures, trajectories and sonic shapes - Rolf Inge God??y


• 3. Reflection - Lucia D'Errico


• 4. Shape, drawing and gesture: empirical studies of cross-modality - Mats K??ssner


• 5. Reflection - Anna Meredith


• 6. Cross-modal correspondences and affect in a Schubert song - Renee Timmers and Zohar Eitan


• Section II: Shapes composed


• 7. Reflection - George Benjamin


• 8. Shapes of affect in Bach's Sonata in G minor for Unaccompanied Violin - Michael Spitzer


• 9. Reflection - Steven Isserlis


• 10. Shape in music notation: exploring the cross-modal representation of sound in the visual domain using zygonic theory - Adam Ockelford


• 11. Reflection - Alice Eldridge


• 12. Shape in improvisation - Milton Mermikides and Eugene Feygelson


• Section III: Shapes performed


• 13. Reflection - Max Baillie


• 14. Musical shape for performers - Helen M. Prior


• 15. Reflection - Simon Desbruslais


• 16. Reflection - Malcolm Bilson


• 17. Shaping popular music - Alinka Greasley and Helen M. Prior


• 18. Reflection - Steve Savage


• Section IV: Shapes seen


• 19. Reflection - Mark Applebaum


• 20. Reflection - I-Uen Hwang


• 21. Music and shape in synaesthesia - Jamie Ward


• 22. Reflection - Timothy B. Layden


• 23. Reflection - Stephen Hough


• 24. Reflection - Alex Reuben


• 25. The shape of music in dance - Philip Barnard and Scott deLahunta


• 26. Reflection - Richard Mitchell


• Section V: Shapes felt


• 27. Reflection - Julia Holter


• 28. Musical shape and feeling - Daniel Leech-Wilkinson


• 29. Reflection - David Amram


• 30. Reflection - Antony Pitts


• Index