...Nádia Moura; Sofia Serra Quantitative studies demonstrate that performers’ gestures reflect technical, communicative, and expressive aspects of musical works in solo and group performances. However, musicians’ perspectives and experiences toward body movement are little understood. To address...

... and production capacity: 1) expertise : music or dance, 2) training style : percussive or nonpercussive, 3) stimulus modality : auditory or visual, and 4) movement type : finger-tap or whole-body bounce. Experiment 1 examined how expertise and training style influenced beat perception and production performance...

... nontechnical motion (movement considered supplementary to producing sound) and ritardando at cadences. Cadences typically provide resolution to built-up tension at differing levels of importance according to the hierarchical structure of music. Thus, we hypothesized that performers would embody...

...Petri Toiviainen; Emily Carlson Previous research has shown that humans tend to embody musical meter at multiple beat levels during spontaneous dance. This work that been based on identifying typical periodic movement patterns, or eigenmovements, and has relied on time-domain analyses. The current...

...Douglas A. Kowalewski; Taylor M. Kratzer; Ronald S. Friedman Integrating methods from experimental social psychology and music perception, we tested the hypothesis that when listeners personally like a musician, they will be more inclined to experience his or her music as both provoking movement...

... interact visually, particularly when the musical timing is irregular. This study investigated the performance conditions that encourage visual signaling and interaction between ensemble members. Piano and clarinet duos rehearsed a new piece as their body motion was recorded. Analyses of head movement...

...Madeline Huberth; Takako Fujioka Some movements that musicians make are non-essential to their instrumental playing, yet express their intentions and interpretations of music’s structures. One such potential interpretation is the choice to emphasize short melodic groupings or to integrate...

...Esther Coorevits; Dirk Moelants Growing interest in studies on the relationship between music and movement has given rise to many paradigms and theories, including embodied approaches that provide interesting methodologies in studies on music and dance. Insight into the relation between dance...

...Matthew Davies; Guy Madison; Pedro Silva; Fabien Gouyon Groove is a sensation of movement or wanting to move when we listen to certain types of music; it is central to the appreciation of many styles such as Jazz, Funk, Latin, and many more. To better understand the mechanisms that lead...

...Petri Toiviainen; Geoff Luck; Marc R. Thompson Listening to music often is associated with spontaneous body movements frequently synchronized with its periodic structure. The notion of embodied cognition assumes that intelligent behavior does not emerge from mere passive perception, but requires...

... be labeled regular-irregular, groove, having swing, and flowing. Considering the wide range of music examples used, these factors are interpreted as reflecting psychological dimensions independent of musical genre and style. Received June 26, 2006, accepted September 5, 2006 Key words: movement, dance, music...