A theory of virtual agency for Western art music /Robert S. Hatten.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
- Musical meaning and interpretation .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prelude: from gesture to virtual agency -- Foundations for a theory of agency -- Virtual environmental forces and gestural energies: actants as agential -- Virtual embodiment: from actants to virtual human agents -- Virtual identity and actorial continuity -- Interlude I: from embodiment to subjectivity -- Staging virtual subjectivity -- Virtual subjectivity and aesthetically warranted emotions -- Staging virtual narrative agency -- Performing agency -- An integrative agential interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F minor, opus 52 -- Interlude II: hearing agency: a complex cognitive task -- Other perspectives on virtual agency -- Postlude.
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Music--Philosophy and aesthetics. Agent (Philosophy) Act (Philosophy)