Performing Time
Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance
$119.68
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2023
Summary
Music and dance can change our sense of time. Both rely on synchronizing our attention and actions with sounds and with other people, both involve memory and expectation, and both can give rise to experiences of flow and pleasure.
Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of performers and audiences, and informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology, neuroscience, and psychology. It includes discussions of te…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192896254 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192896253 |
| Author: | Justin London, Clemens Wöllner |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 1.01kg |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 176mm x 257mm |
Critics Review
Wöllner and London present a significant contribution to the study of time in music and dance. This volume is likely to become an essential reference for anyone interested in the temporal aspects of performance and perception, from cognitive scientists to musicologists, and dancers to philosophers. Performing Time exemplifies the rich potential of truly interdisciplinary scholarship in the arts and sciences, offering a comprehensive resource that will undoubtedly inspire future research and deepen our understanding of how we experience and create time through music and dance. * Jessica M. Ross, Perception *
Justin London
Clemens Wöllner
Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Music, Freiburg, Germany. He has published widely on timing in perception and performance, expressiveness, attention, and movement in music and beyond. His long-term research project “Slow Motion: Transformation of Musical Time in Perception and Performance” has been awarded a grant from the European Union. He is President of the German Society for Music Psychology and serves on the boards of leading journals in the field.
Justin London
Justin London is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities at Carleton College (USA). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania where he worked with Leonard Meyer. His research interests include rhythm and timing in non-western music, beat and tempo perception, sensorimotor synchronization and joint action, and musical aesthetics. He has served as President of the Society for Music Theory (2007-2009) and President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2016-2018).
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