Low-intrusive recognition of expressive movement qualities

Die musikalische Hermeneutik ist ein umstrittenes Unternehmen, das heute vor allem für eine historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse musikalischer Bedeutungen steht. Daneben besteht aber eine wilde Alltagshermeneutik, in der das Verstehen mit dem alltäglichen Umgang mit Musik verwoben ist. Meg Stuarts Tanzstück Built to last wird gelesen als Reflexion auf diese Alltagshermeneutik. Es wendet Stuarts Technik der Erforschung und Verfremdung von Ausdrucksbewegung auf die Bewegung der und zur Musik an, und sein dezidiert »falscher« Umgang mit der klassischen Musik lässt mehr über deren Gegenwart erkennen als ein formalerer, »richtiger« Ansatz. <br><br>Musical hermeneutics is a controversial issue. Today it is primarily associated with historical research into musical meanings in the context of cultural studies. Besides this, there is an everyday hermeneutics where understanding is inextricably linked to the daily use of music. Meg Stuart’s dance piece Built to last is interpreted as a reflection of this everyday hermeneutics. It applies Stuart’s technique of researching and distorting expressive movement to the movement of and to music, and its decidedly “wrong” way of doing this reveals more about classical music’s presence than a more formal, “right” approach.

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Validation of Graphoanalysis by “Global” or “Holistic” Method

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1977.44.2.403 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 44 (2) ◽

pp. 403-410 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

James C. Crumbaugh ◽

Emilie Stockholm

Keyword(s):

Personality Assessment ◽

Statistical Study ◽

Handwriting Analysis ◽

Expressive Movement ◽

Projective Techniques ◽

Matching Technique ◽

Total Data ◽

Holistic Method

Graphoanalysis is the most systematically developed and best researched of all methods of handwriting analysis (generically called graphology). This is a projective expressive movement that is neither better nor more poorly validated than most projective techniques as a means of personality assessment, which is inadequate because their subjectivity makes statistical study difficult. With all projective techniques “sign” or trait validation has been minimal, and the best validation has come from “global” or “holistic” methods. The present study presents a paradigm for the latter type of approach to handwriting analysis, using a matching technique with probabilities of 1/5, wherein five subjects were matched by people who knew them to one of five blind Graphoanalyses of the subjects' writing. This design is herein replicated five times, with total data significantly different from chance expectation ( p < .001), supporting the hypothesis that it is possible to evaluate personality through analysis of handwriting.

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