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Music and Gesture.(Book review)
Music and Gesture. Edited by Anthony Gritten and Elaine King. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. [xxv, 232 p. ISBN 0-754-65298-X. $89.95.] Illustrations, music examples, index.
The publication of a collection of essays entitled Music and Gesture in 2006 attests that the study of gesture in music scholarship has come of age. Since the field is in its nascent stage, the editors Anthony Gritten and Elaine King hope to achieve two general objectives: 1) to explore the relations between music and gesture from a variety of theoretical angles; and 2) to examine performers' gesture.
Robert Hatten argues in his opening essay that gesture should be broadly defined as ...
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