Syllabus

 Main curriculum

(* Accessible through Canvas )

Videos:

• *Music Moves - a free online course (MOOC) from the University of Oslo. (Also available on YouTube)

Texts:

• Jensenius, Zeiner-Henriksen, and Nymoen (2017).  Music Moves. The Book based on the MOOC. ( available on Leanpub).
• *Dahl et al. (2010). Gesture in Performance? In R. I. God?y & M. Leman (Eds.), Musical gestures: Sound, movement, and meaning (pp. 36¨C68): Routhledge.
• Haugen, M. R. (2016): Music-Dance. Investigating Rhythm Structures in Brazilian Samba and Norwegian Telespringar Performance. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oslo. Chapter 2 , chapter 3, and bibliography.

• *God?y, R. I. (2010). Gestural Affordances of Musical Sound? In R. I. God?y & M. Leman (Eds.), Musical gestures: Sound, movement, and meaning (pp. 103¨C125), Routhledge.

• *Jensenius et al. (2010). Musical Gestures. Concepts and Methods in Research? In R. I. God?y & M. Leman (Eds.), Musical gestures: Sound, movement, and meaning (pp. 12¨C35): Routhledge.

• Jensenius, A. R. (2018). Methods for studying music-related body motion. In R. Bader (Ed.), Handbook of Systematic Musicology (pp. 567¨C580). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
• Zeiner-Henriksen, Hans T. (2009): The ¡°PoumTchak¡± Pattern: Correspondences Between Rhythm, Sound, and Movement in Electronic Dance Music. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oslo. Chapter 4 and bibliography

Optional reading

• Aksnes, Hallgjerd (2002): Perspectives of Musical Meaning. A Study Based on Selected Works by Geirr Tveitt. Chapter. 8. PDF
• Aksnes, H.  (2002). Music and its Resonating Body. Dansk ?rbog for Musikforskning 2001, vol. XXIX, 2002, pp. 81-101. 
• Burger, B. & Toiviainen, P. (2013). MoCap Toolbox ¨C A Matlab toolbox for computational analysis of movement data. In R. Bresin (Ed.), Proceedings of the 10th Sound and Music Computing Conference, (SMC). Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology PDF
• Clayton, Martin (2012) 'What is entrainment? Definition and applications in musical research.', Empirical musicology review., 7 (1-2). pp. 49-56.  PDF
• Engelsrud, Gunn: Hva er kropp, 2006. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. ISBN: 978-82-15-00785-4, h., 82-15-00785-6, h. 154 s.
• Gambetta, C. L. (2005). Conducting Outside the Box: Creating a Fresh Approach to Conducting Gesture Through the Principles of Laban Movement Analysis. PhD thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. PDF
• God?y, Rolf Inge (2009): Geometry and Effort in Gestural Renderings of Musical Sound. I M. Sales Dias et al. (Eds.): GW 2007, LNAI 5085, pp. 205¨C215, 2009. PDF
• God?y and Leman: Musical Gestures: Sound, Movement, and Meaning, 2010. Routledge. 
• Gritten, Anthony og King, Elaine (red.): Music and Gesture, 2006. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN: 0-7546-5298-x, ib. 232 s.
• Haugen, Mari Romarheim Haugen (2016): Music¨CDance. Investigating Rhythm Structures in Brazilian Samba and Norwegian Telespringar Performance. (Ph.D. thesis ), University of Oslo, Oslo.
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum: Musikk og bevegelse, 2009. Unipub. ISBN: 9788274773691. 156 sider. (fri elektronisk versjon).
• Jensenius, Alexander Refsum. Action¨Csound: developing methods and tools to study music-related body movement, 2007. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oslo.
• Leman, Marc: Embodied music cognition and mediation technology , 2008. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0-262-12293-1, ib. 296 s.
• Mazzola, G. (2011). Musical Performance - A Comprehensive Approach: Theory, Analytical Tools, and Case Studies (elektronisk )
• Nymoen, Kristian (2013): Methods and Technologies for Analysing Links Between Musical Sound and Body Motion. Kapittel 3-4
• Nymoen, Kristian, Skogstad, St?le A., Jensenius, Alexander Refsum (2011): "SoundSaber - A Motion Capture Instrument" i Proceedings of the Interational Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, s. 312-315. PDF

• Wilson, M. a. K., G¨¹nther (2005). The Case for Motor Involvement in Perceiving Conspecifics. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 131(3), 13.

• Zeiner-Henriksen, Hans T. (2009): The "PoumTchak" Pattern: Correspondences Between Rhythm, Sound, and Movement in Electronic Dance Music!. PhD thesis, The University of Oslo (elektronisk )

Relevant web material

• Playlist on YouTube with various interesting videos (please add more)
• A Performer's Perspective (reflections on music and dance)