This article aims at providing a reflection towards the percussionist gestures during musical performance. In building a performance we propose to assist the transmission of a work's musical content according to three gestural acts: technical (only related to body motion); interpretative (related to intellectual exercises) and expressive (integration between body and intellect actions). The explanations and analyses of the gesture phenomena are illustrated with standard works of the percussion repertoire.
gesture in percussion; body movement in music; intellectual exercise and performance
