Peter Keller
An all-encompassing view on how and why we interact with music. Leman's treatise on musical expression gets to the heart of what it means to be humanthe innate communicative drive that makes us social beingswith an impressive blend of intellectual rigor and ability to pursue lines of thought that range beyond the square.
Marcelo M. Wanderley
Marc Leman's The Expressive Moment is an excellent follow up to Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology, his first MIT Press opus. This work is based on research results spanning over almost a decade and provides solid evidence to several of the claims laid out in his first book. A must read!
Endorsement
Marc Leman's book is an excellent synthesis of current embodied music cognition research. Highly recommended for anyone curious about how people engage with music.
Rolf Inge Godøy, Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo
From the Publisher
An all-encompassing view on how and why we interact with music. Leman's treatise on musical expression gets to the heart of what it means to be humanthe innate communicative drive that makes us social beingswith an impressive blend of intellectual rigor and ability to pursue lines of thought that range beyond the square.
Peter Keller, Professor of Cognitive Science, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behavior and Development, Western Sydney University
Marc Leman's The Expressive Moment is an excellent follow up to Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology, his first MIT Press opus. This work is based on research results spanning over almost a decade and provides solid evidence to several of the claims laid out in his first book. A must read!
Marcelo M. Wanderley, Professor of Music Technology, McGill University
Marc Leman's book is an excellent synthesis of current embodied music cognition research. Highly recommended for anyone curious about how people engage with music.
Rolf Inge Godøy, Professor of Musicology, University of Oslo