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Product Description: Fingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these. Are they to be perceived as musical elements or do they shift attention to the physical effort of music-making, contact between a body and an instrument? Composer Paul Craenen explores ways in which the musician’s body is revealed in musical performance...read more

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9789058679741 | Leuven Univ Pr, March 25, 2014, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Fingers slipping over guitar strings, the tap of a bow against the body of a cello, a pianist humming along to the music: contemporary composers often work with parasitic, non-conventional sounds such as these.

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Product Description: Building on the insights of the first volume on Music and Gesture (Gritten and King, Ashgate 2006), the rationale for this sequel volume is twofold: first, to clarify the way in which the subject is continuing to take shape by highlighting both central and developing trends, as well as popular and less frequent areas of investigation; second, to provide alternative and complementary insights into the particular areas of the subject articulated in the first volume...read more
By Elaine King (editor)

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9780754664628 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 1, 2011, cover price $114.95 | About this edition: Building on the insights of the first volume on Music and Gesture (Gritten and King, Ashgate 2006), the rationale for this sequel volume is twofold: first, to clarify the way in which the subject is continuing to take shape by highlighting both central and developing trends, as well as popular and less frequent areas of investigation; second, to provide alternative and complementary insights into the particular areas of the subject articulated in the first volume.

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Product Description: The Telling of Our Truths has been written in response to critics’ and professionals’ complaint of performers who sing or play well - yet say little with their music. In …Truths, Peter Elkus both dissects and formulates the elements of Great Musical Performance...read more

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9781419662188 | Createspace, February 16, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: The Telling of Our Truths has been written in response to critics’ and professionals’ complaint of performers who sing or play well - yet say little with their music.

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