Hatten, Robert S.,

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.



9780253037992 9780253038012

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Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
Agent (Philosophy)
Act (Philosophy)


Electronic Books.

ML3845 / .T446 2018