Moving to the rhythm of spring

A case study of the rhythmic structure of dance

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21462020
AutoresIsabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume46
Fascículo4
Páginas799-838
Data de publicação2023-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics and Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0165-0157 • E-ISSN: 1573-0549
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10988-022-09356-z
OpenAlexW4284677771
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas40

The specific goal of the article is to investigate the principles governing the perception of rhythmic structure in dance and music—taken separately and together—on the basis of a case study. I take as a starting point Lerdahl and Jackendoff’s (A generative theory of tonal music. MIT Press, 1983) conception of musical rhythm as the interaction between grouping and meter, and I examine to what extent it can apply to dance. Then, I explore how the rhythmical structures of music and dance interact in a single event. I conclude that dance and music perception largely share the same abstract system, and the differences in the properties of their structure derives from the different (visual vs. auditory) modalities in which they are perceived; their modality difference also affects the perceived structure resulting from their combination in dance-music events. The exploration is guided by a detailed examination of the opening of Stravinsky’s Augurs of Spring (1913) as choreographed by Nijinsky (1913), Béjart (1970) and Bausch (1975). By comparing these minimal pairs of dance-music events, I adapt the formal methodology of linguistics to other cognitive systems. The general goal of the article is to shed further light on the organizational principles of mental representations by comparing several cognitive systems in order to distinguish between general cognitive properties and modality-specific or domain-specific properties

Aesthetics · Art · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Dance · Electronic dance music · Linguistics · Modalities · Music and emotion · Music history · Musical · Musicality · Perception · Rhythm · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Multisensory perception and integration · Neuroscience · Neuroscience and Music Perception · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence