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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music

  • Author: Hatten, Robert S.
The book represents a major effort and achievement from one the era's most influential music theorists. . . . Essential

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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