Gesture and Agency: Inclusive Interpretation Tools for Hornists
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Date
2021-11
Authors
Stanley, Justin Michael
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University of Oregon
Abstract
Performers are adept at creating lines and shape in the music we play. This
comes from many hours of practicing, listening, playing with others, lessons,
sectionals, and master classes. It also comes from studying musical form and
music history. I argue that performance interpretation is analysis, and that
interpretation can be enhanced by tools being created by scholars of performance
and analysis. The pedagogy of musicality in the horn studio is improved through
the shared agency (a term borrowed from theorist and performer Daphne Leong)
of musical disciplines, including theory and musicology. To be inclusive of
repertoires, I advocate for a greater use of analysis in music making by using
concepts that are widely understandable, including gesture and agency. Many
horn pedagogues already utilize these concepts, and their work is analyzed in
Chapter 2. I propose that methodically adding theories of gesture and agency to
horn pedagogy will provide a powerful tool to hornists – and all performers or
pre-written works – to better perceive shape and structure in the music they
prepare. Gesture and agency are methodically utilized in the analysis of Alice
Gomez’s La Calavera and Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70.
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107 pages
Keywords
inclusivity, performance interpretation, music pedagogy, gestures, horn pedagogy, Alice Gomez, La Calavera, Robert Schumann, Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70