Materials, movements and gestural configurations in tonal music

Authors

  • Sergio Balderrabano Instituto de Historia del Arte Argentino y Americano Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Keywords:

Tonal music, musical materials, movement, gestures, significance

Abstract

The concept of musical gesture refers to a holistic conception, where the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic and metric materials, together with indications of tempo, joints, dynamics and timbres interact in the quite indivisible one. This holistic conception will be raised in the perceptual frame in which we will address the concept of musical gesture, understood as a discursive continuity that acquires meaning. From these considerations, the study of the interaction of musical materials in their gestural dimension will be articulated both at the level of the smallest structures (motive, phrase, figure, texture) and at the level of procedural and formal behaviors (theme, sections, topics). In this way, we will study aspects of the intrinsic significance of a musical piece of work (from the behavior of the interaction between the musical materials) to arrive at its expressive, metaphorical, symbolic content and its social belonging.

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Published

2016-09-20

How to Cite

Balderrabano, S. (2016). Materials, movements and gestural configurations in tonal music. Arte E Investigación, (10), 119–122. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/aei/article/view/248

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Arte e Investigación 10

Section

Research works

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