Basic Gestures for Music Theory, Performance, and Pedagogy

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-10680-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 79 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

Reihe: Computational Music Science

This book offers a groundbreaking introduction to the role of gestures in music, tailored for educators working with young students before university level. Written in clear, intuitive language and free from mathematical or musical prerequisites, this book makes complex ideas accessible.

Drawing from Guerino Mazzola’s influential work , this volume presents gesture theory in a uniquely approachable way, richly illustrated with high-quality figures. It introduces the revolutionary concept of hypergestures — gestures within spaces of gestures — opening new possibilities for understanding and teaching complex musical interactions.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mazzola, Guerino

Dornfeld, Ryan

Xi, Ruochen

Xu, Ran

Gong, Junze

Sun, Yuwen

Qiu, Qiu

Winter, Micah

Bryan-Moreira, Jasmin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. What Are Gestures.- Chapter 1. Life Gestures.- Chapter 2. Musical Gestures.- Chapter 3. Gestures And Content.- Part II. Teaching Music Theory.- Chapter 4. Fundamental Realities.- Chapter 5. Elementary Concepts.- Chapter 6. Melodies, Harmonies, Modulation, Counterpoint.- Chapter 7. Gestures In Theory And Scores.- Part III. Performance.- Chapter 8. Definition of Performance.- Chapter 9. Elements Of Performance.- Chapter 10. Creating Musical Time.- Part IV. Contents.- Chapter 11. Contents In Music.- Part V. Pedagogy.- Chapter 12. Pedagogy.

Über Autor(innen)

Born in 1947 , Guerino Mazzola  became a professor of mathematics (1980) and of computational science (2003) at the University of Zu¨rich. He was a visiting professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2005. Since 2007, he has been a professor at the School of Music, University of Minnesota. He developed a mathematical music theory and music analysis and composition software using presto and rubato. Since 2007 to 2021, he has been the president of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music. He has published 33 books and 150 papers, 27 jazz CDs, two DVDs, and a classical sonata. His most important book is  (four volumes, 1700 pages) which is about mathematical music, performance, and gesture theory.