Andrew Warshaw
Title
Associate Professor of Music and DanceMusic Director, Dance Department
Coordinator, Music Minor
He/Him/His
Department
DancePhone
212-774-0772About
Andrew Warshaw is Associate Professor of Music and Dance at Marymount Manhattan College. He is a composer, writer and former dancer whose music and lyrics for theater and dance hav
Degree(s)
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., New York University
Research
These papers and presentations on the role of locomotor movement in musical organization and cognition can be accessed below:
Locomotion-Encoded Musical Patterns in Self-Organizing Structures and Transitions
Proceedings of the Computer Music Multidisciplinary Conference, Marseille, France, October 2013 (publication pending: Springer-Verlag) PDF
Locomotion-Encoded Musical Movements (LEMMS):
A Proposed Use for Four Categories of Vertebrate Locomotion in Music Medicine Application and Research.
Music and Medicine, January 2010; vol. 2, 1: pp. 48-58. doi: 10.1177/1943862109357191 PDF Sage Journals
Locomotion-Encoded Music Patterning: An Evolutionary Legacy
Music and Evolutionary Thought Conference, University of Durham/Cambridge University, June 2007 PDF
Locomotion-Encoded Musical Patterns: A Terminology for the Composer
Conference Paper: Composing in the XXIst Century Conference, Universite de Montreal, March, 2007 PDF
Musical Creatures: How Vertebrate Locomotion Shapes Human Music
Philoctetes Society, NYC, October, 2008