Gestural migration as a pedagogical tool in violin learning: a case study

This article explores the potential of gestural migrations as a novel approach to violin pedagogy, allowing us trace enlightening parallelisms between learning musical performative gestures and dimension cinema time-shaped/shaping artistic discipline. As case study, I take first movement Claude Debussy's Violin Sonata L. 140, composed in 1917, following an empirically grounded quantitative analytical approach. attempt correspondences with selected scenes from contemporary French cinematic that fascinated composer early years twentieth century.