A theory of virtual agency for Western art music

Introduction

Prelude: from gesture to virtual agency

Foundations for a theory of agency

Virtual environmental forces and gestural energies: actants as agential

Virtual embodiment: from actants to virtual human agents

Virtual identity and actorial continuity

Interlude I: from embodiment to subjectivity

Staging virtual subjectivity

Virtual subjectivity and aesthetically warranted emotions

Staging virtual narrative agency

Performing agency

An integrative agential interpretation of Chopin's Ballade in F minor, op. 52

Interlude II: hearing agency: a complex cognitive task

Other perspectives on virtual agency

Postlude.