Summary For most of its history, as one might reasonably imagine, music has involved composites of sounds and the bodily actions that produce them. To whatever extent this proposition might be accurate, it suggests that music has been, and to varying extents remains, a genre of theatre. But the possibility of separating sounds from their visible, corporeal sources ? as in listening to singing that is performed in a dark cave or performed behind a rood screen, or in listening to LP recordings in one?s den ? became a distinct way of experiencing, understanding, and teaching music, especially in various forms of higher education. By contrast, the current interest in embodiment, branching off from gender studies, invites us to appreciate the roles of corporeality in shaping musical experience, which this collection of seventeen essays explores in the genres of opera, theatre, contemporary classical post-tonal music, the music of Jimi Hendrix, and the role of album cover art in shaping listening experiences. Beyond repertoire are essays on innate, acquired, and culturally imposed bodily limitations; eurhythmics; human-computer integration exercises; the cognitive semiotics of musical motion; and the corporeal bases of aesthetic evaluation of musical experiences. TABLE OF CONTENTS Arnie Cox, Introduction Part One: Education Anna Maria Freschi Feeling, Understanding, Communicating: Bodily Movement as a Catalyst of Musical Knowledge Anne Marleen Olthof ? Somaya Ben Allouch ? Jouke Velinden Io la musica son : Studying Embodied Knowledge in the Context of Human-Computer Integration Part Two: Innate, Acquired, and Culturally Imposed Bodily Limitations Ryan Weber Embodied Knowledges, Critical Thresholds: Tracing the Roots of Ableism in Music and Medical Professionalism Vinicius de Mello Jord o Embodiment and Occupational Pain in Musicians: The Role of Our Perspective Sanna K. Iitti Eduard Hanslick?s Anxiety about the Body Part Three: Opera and Theatre Jane Sylvester Callas on the Catwalk Danielle L. Herrington Embodying Rameau?s Les Indes Galantes through Contemporary Artistic Direction and Postmodern Camp Gabrielle Ferrari The Voice of Power: Simulating Disembodiment with Mrs. Meurig Morris Part Four: The Roles of Bodies in Western Post-Tonal and Contemporary Art Music Xuezi Xu ? Sio Pan Leong Body, Prosthesis, and musique mixte: The Case of Chaya Czernowin?s Hidden (2014) Riccardo D. Wanke Listening to Sound-Based Music: A Trajectory between Embodied Cognition and Virtual Affordances Hubert Ho Apprehending musique concr te instrumentale and Other Contemporary avant-garde Music through Embodiment and Embodied Cognition: A Case Study of Julien Malaussena?s 8 minutes after boiling Lin Korobkova Spaces Surrounding Music, Spaces Seeping into Music Litha Efthymiou Composing Gestures Part Five: Two Cases from Popular Music Victor Arul Monterey, Woodstock, Maui: Bodily Gesture in Jimi Hendrix Media as Countercultural Communal Representation Maria Athanasiou Epit phios and To tragho dhi tou nekro adelfo : Embodiment and Iconography in Album Covers Part Six: Musical Motion and Emotion Gabriele Giacosa Moving Sounds, Moving Together: Musical Meaning, the Body and Atmospheres Arnie Cox Experience and the Bases of Musical Value Abstrats and Biographies Index of Names