The Analysis Model

The selection of perceptual properties proposed in this study is presented in the chapter, as well as the methodology of analysis. These case studies were chosen because they produced an emotional response in me, but were also perceived and described as emotional by both informed spectators and general audiences. In order to develop the model with a controlled number of variables, solos were chosen for these analyses. Since emotional import is understood as a substructure constituted by, but not reducible to, the perceptual properties of the work, these perceptual properties are studied and analysed in depth. The particular properties, movement qualities, sound-movement relationships, and spatial-rhythm, are selected because they emerged as relevant in the analysis of the three case studies and in the reviews studied; however, the book does not defend them as the only possible properties relevant towards emotional import.