Musical gestures : sound, movement, and meaning / edited by Rolf Inge Godøy and Marc Leman

Includes bibliographical references and index

Why study musical gestures? / Marc Leman and Rolf Inge Godøy -- Musical gestures : concepts and methods in research / Alexander Refsum Jensenius ... [and others] -- Gesture in performance / Sofia Dahl ... [and others] -- Music and gestures : a historical introduction and survey of earlier research / Albrecht Schneider -- Gestural affordances of musical sound / Rolf Inge Godøy -- Music, gesture, and the formation of embodied meaning / Marc Leman -- The functional role and bio-kinetics of basic and expressive gestures in activation and sonification / Leon van Noorden -- Gesture and timbre / Tor Halmrast ... [and others] -- Sensorimotor control of sound-producing gestures / Sylvie Gibet -- Visual gesture recognition : from motion tracking to expressive gesture / Antonio Camurri and Thomas B. Moeslund -- Conductors' gestures and their mapping to sound synthesis / Gunnar Johannsen and Teresa Marrin Nakra

'Musical Gestures' is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, and human movement science