ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of movement as a means of musical communication and examines the functions of performers' body movements, with a focuses on how these movements are controlled and how they contribute to performers' realization of their expressive intentions. It provides discussion of the methods that can be used to investigate performers' body movements. Researchers studying musicians' body movements require recording techniques that capture movement information as precisely as possible, while interfering as little as possible with the movements themselves. The chapter focuses on how anticipation underlies the use of two types of performance gestures: sound-producing gestures, and communicative gestures. It illustrates how performers' control over their technical movements helps them achieve their expressive intentions and shows how performance gestures help ensemble musicians anticipate one another's actions and coordinate their playing. Sound-producing gestures are the movements that enable musicians to create sounds on their musical instruments.
