A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music - (Musical Meaning and Interpretation) by Robert S Hatten (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book draws on theories of musical gesture and emotion to develop the first comprehensive theory of virtual musical agency in Western art music. It uses examples from tonal music of well-known Western composers.</p> <p>2. The work of a mature scholar, this book represents the culmination of a scholarly career studying the theory of agency in music and compliments the other two books by Robert Hatten published by IUP.</p> <p>3. The author is internationally known as a leading scholar in the field of music theory and also serves as the well-respected and very active editor for our Musical Meaning and Interpretation series.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>In<i> A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Musi</i>c, Robert S. Hatten examines agency as it is projected by music and perceived by listeners. . . . Scholars and performers eager to discover imaginative yet authentic ways to experience and understand music will enjoy this book and relish finding themselves within it.</p>--Ian Gerg "Notes"<br><br><p>The book represents a major effort and achievement from one the era's most influential music theorists. . . . Essential.</p>-- "Choice"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Robert S. Hatten is Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professor in Music at The University of Texas at Austin and President of the Society for Music Theory. He is the author of <i>Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation</i> and <i>Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert</i>.</p>
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