Table of Contents
Table of Contents v
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
To Performers
To Music Theorists
To Composers
To Movement Professionals
To Music Therapists
Vitalizing the Musical Elements, One by One 1
Movement in the Studio and in Theory Teaching
Movement Becomes More Musical
Focusing and Refining Movement
Movement as a Schenkerian Discipline
Principles of Effective Movement
Movement Processes for Research and Teaching
Mobilizing Balance 9
Balance and Grounding
Resting Balance, Sitting
A Familiar Class Scene
Resting Balance, Standing
Activated Balance and Tonic
The Sitting Balance Process and the Standing Balance Process Carlos
The Games of Where Are You? and Where Am I?
Activated Balance and the Cadential Tonic
Spinal Flexibility
Sitting Sways; Standing Sways
The Swaying Process
Luisa
Swaying and Melody
Core Support
Recognizing Core Support
Luke
Core Support in Playing Phrase
Weight-Throwing into Action
Arm Swings
Weight-Throwing with Regard to Measure and Beat
Reabsorption and Completion of Action: Juncture
Ending
The Game of Where Is It?
The Gracious Curve
Preliminary Experience
The Gracious Curve Process, Standing
The Gracious Curve Process, Sitting
The Gracious Curve Process and Playing Technique
Doing the Processes
Melody Awakened: Seven Stages for Embodying Its Contour 37
Singing
Finding the Main Melody
Contouring Melody
Laddering the Pitches and Intervals
EmphasizingContinuity
Emphasizing Melody's Shape
Engaging the Whole Body
Swaying, to Take Contouring into Playing or Singing
Embodying the Nuances of Melody
Melody's Affect
Resilience of Meter and Rhythm 63
Basics
Tony
Equality and Variety of Beats
Arm Swings, Side to Side
Tapping the Air
Metric Levels
Meter and Phrase
Detailed Experiences of Ping and Lilt
Sonya, Part 1
Balloon Tapping to Refine the Ping
Kendall
Ping Circles
Sonya, Part 2
Soft-Springs
Hypermeasure Soft-Springs
Counting Aloud
Jonathan
Finding Rhythmic Clusters
Walking the Durations
Evelyn and Ricardo
The Integration of Structural Levels 81
Toward an Engaged Music Theory
Fundamental Attributes of Schenkerian Sound: Coalescence, Middleground Rhythmic Vitality, and Span
Coalescence as a Musical Quality
Kosta, Part 1
Middleground Rhythmic Vitality as a Musical Quality
Rachel
Coalescence and Middleground Rhythmic Vitality as Movement: Stepping
Eric
Kosta, Part 2
Coalescence and Middleground Rhythmic Vitality in a Nonmusical Context: Pole Vaulting
Jonathan
Other Contributors to Schenkerian Sound
Reluctance
Andrew
Shaping Phrase with Span and Climax 103
Span as a Musical Quality
Slow-Motion Sculpting
Span as Movement: Hand Stretch
Jonathan
Arcing with an Arm to Find Performance Phrases
Kathy
Arm-Arcing to Find Span and Climax
Stepping and Stretching Spontaneously
Amy
A Chain of Processes: "Daphne am Bach"
Meter
Middleground Rhythmic Vitality
Span
Synthesis
Letting Gesture Through: Reverberation 120
Juncture and Reverberation
Reverberation as Expression
Sophie
Reabsorbing
Cutting off Reverberation
Nathan and Melissa
Embodying Reverberation
Joints
Joint Awareness
Joints and Touch
Joint Dance
Spinal Flexibility and Tone Quality
Spinal Flexibility and Melody
"Listen!"
Jonathan and Valerie
The Movements of Juncture 136
Characterizing 154
Musical Character
Adrian, Part 1
Movement for Characterizing
Adrian, Part 2
Character-Rhythm
Jennifer
Tone of Voice 164
Notation and Tone of Voice
Musical Empathy
Arousing Tone of Voice
Descriptive Word
Vocal Inflection and Facial Response
Full-Bodied Gestural Response
Touch
Adjectives and Adverbs
Quick Starts
Gargoyles
Variety of Affects in a Single Phrase
Aldo
Balance and Calm as Reference Points
Leah
Characterizing Movement versus Tone of Voice
Tone of Voice and Structural Levels
The Spirit of Play 178
Practicing Play
Recollecting
Imitating
Parody
Games to Invite Play
Fluent Continuity of Melody: Spinning a Spider's Web
Ping and Lilt in Hypermeter: Alphabet
Span of Phrase: Opening-Closing
Articulation of Phrases and Contrast of Phrase and Juncture: De Kooning Painting
Characterizing: Sweet Sixteenths
Ensemble and Showmanship
In a Nutshell
Aldo and Marta
Notes 187
Bibliography 209
Index of Topics and Concepts 219
Index of Names and Compositions 227
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