ABSTRACT
This chapter points out two relatively small things about the coordination of movement and music in this passage. First, there is the tight coordination between movement and music – indeed, as we watch the performance, we may not even realise that the dancers are stamping on the offbeats. The second aspect of this passage that is important for the perspective author wish to develop is, in a manner of speaking, a complement of the first: In the embellished version of the foot stamps that is introduced as the passage continues, the dancers' weight continues to fall on the offbeat, even when the melodic lines in Pianos 2 and 4 shift into alignment, in measure 256, with the main pulse. The chapter deals the framework provided by music and dance for structuring social behaviour. It proposes that the knowledge is rather different from the knowledge we build up through language and that it contributes much to the understanding of music and dance in the twentieth century.
