A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music
Robert S. Hatten · Indiana University Press eBooks · 2018
Acknowledgments Introduction Prelude: From Gesture to Virtual Agency 1. Foundations for a Theory of Agency 2. Virtual Environmental Forces and Gestural Energies: Actants 3. Virtual Embodiment: From Actants to Agents 4. Virtual Identity and Actorial Continuity Interlude I: From Embodiment to Subjectivity 5. Staging Virtual Subjectivity 6. Virtual Subjectivity and Aesthetically Warranted Emotions 7. Staging Virtual Narrative Agency 8. Performing Agency 9. An Integrative Agential Interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52 Interlude II: Hearing Agency: A Complex Cognitive Task 10. Other Perspectives on Virtual Agency Postlude Bibliography Index of Names and Works Index of Concepts