DENNETT, Jacinta Irene

MRes University of Melbourne 2015 Pages: 114

Essential gesture

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Link to Thesis: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/56356

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My research into essential gesture has brought together the technique and practices of harp playing and eurythmy. I use Carlos Salzedo’s fundamental harpistic gesture, which I see as a distillation of a more universal concept that I call essential gesture, as the ground of departure. Through research into Rudolf Steiner’s eurythmy and collaboration with eurythmists I sought to find; a deeper understanding of the essence of music, a corrective for teachers of the Salzedo method for harp, greater depth in my own instrumental performance practice and a validation of my sense of essential gesture. The importance of the senses, especially seeing and hearing, to the conception of Salzedo’s method is outlined. Steiner’s twelve senses are introduced and the relationship of seeing and hearing in regard to perception, comprehension and memory is explored. This practice led research contains the documentation of the performance discussed in my written exegesis...

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