Effect Of Body Motion On Listeners' Interpretation Of Musicality eBook

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: Undergraduate, University of Central Oklahoma, course: Music History, language: English, abstract: This article seeks to determine the effects of body movement on listeners' perceptions of a performance and how this relates to their emotional experience. Studies continue to prove that cognitive, emotive, and communicative processes are elements in performing music and perception of physiological motion offers considerable information about intention and expression. Musicians often subconsciously move their bodies expressing a musical and emotional intention.