Keynote Address

Interpreting Topics for Performance:

Gesture, Texture, Troping, Virtual Agency, and Emotion

 

Robert S. Hatten

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ROBERT S. HATTEN is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Holder of the Marlene and Morton Meyerson Professorship in Music at The University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (1994), Interpreting Musical Gestures, Topics, and Tropes: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (2004), and A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music (2018). His book-in-progress focuses on textural strategies in solo keyboard works from Bach to Brahms.

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