{"product_id":"a-theory-of-virtual-agency-for-western-art-music-paperback-softback-9780253037985","title":"A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253037985","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert S. Hatten (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253037985\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e334 pages, 2 b\u0026amp;w illus., 88 music exx. - 88 Printed music items - 2 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.485 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book represents a major effort and achievement from one the era's most influential music theorists. . . . Essential.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice) \u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Musi\u003c\/i\u003ec, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Ian Gerg (Notes)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: From Gesture to Virtual Agency \u003cbr\u003e1. Foundations for a Theory of Agency \u003cbr\u003e2. Virtual Environmental Forces and Gestural Energies: Actants \u003cbr\u003e3. Virtual Embodiment: From Actants to Agents \u003cbr\u003e4. Virtual Identity and Actorial Continuity \u003cbr\u003eInterlude I: From Embodiment to Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e5. Staging Virtual Subjectivity \u003cbr\u003e6. Virtual Subjectivity and Aesthetically Warranted Emotions \u003cbr\u003e7. Staging Virtual Narrative Agency \u003cbr\u003e8. Performing Agency \u003cbr\u003e9. An Integrative Agential Interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 \u003cbr\u003eInterlude II: Hearing Agency: A Complex Cognitive Task \u003cbr\u003e10. Other Perspectives on Virtual Agency \u003cbr\u003ePostlude\u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names and Works\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520710897944,"sku":"9780253037985","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-theory-of-virtual-agency-for-western-art-music-paperback-softback-9780253037985","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}