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9783906769509
What are the historical roots of the rapidly growing branch of performance studies in contemporary music psychology? During the nineteenth century, the Swiss music theorist Mathis Lussy proposed a highly original theory locating the source of expression in performance within the musical structures rather than solely in the inspired soul of the performing artist. This book presents a comprehensive account of Lussy's theories of musical rhythm and performance based on a survey of long-neglected archival sources and publications against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century psychology and aesthetics. Contents: Expressive performance--Affective response to music--The interdependency of affect and cognition in musical experiences--Respiration as a model for music rhythm--Kinesthesis--Musical rhetoric--Mimesis and formalism in musical aesthetics--Tonal attractions--Accentuation and expressive timing..Doaegantan, Mine is the author of 'Mathis Lussy: A Pioneer in Studies of Expressive Performance', published 2002 under ISBN 9783906769509 and ISBN 390676950X.
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