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Community Music ians move in many diverse settings, and facilitate local Music activities in a wide array of community contexts including schools, hospitals, places of worship, Music festivals, and prisons. Underscoring the importance of active participation and sensitivity to context, they integrate activities such as listening, improvising, inventing and performing while emphasizing equality of opportunity and fostering a diverse and welcoming environment for all. In Community Music : In Theory and in Practice, author Lee Higgins, a recognized leader in the study and advocacy of community Music , investigates an interventional approach toward active Music making outside of formal teaching and learning situations. Situating community Music within today's wider Music al landscape, Higgins guides the reader through a historical perspective on the movement and an examination of its traits of practice, and concludes with a discussion of future implications and directions for this distinctive and increasingly significant Music -making discipline. The first full-length work on the subject, Community Music : In Theory and In Practice is a must-read for anyone invested in Music education, Music therapy, applied ethno Music ology, or community cultural development, as well as the practitioners and participants of community Music activities.
Lee Higgins
Music
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Why do some children take up Music , while others dont? Why do some excel, whilst others give up? Why do some children favour classical Music , whilst others prefer rock? These are questions that have puzzled Music educators, psychologists, and Music ologists for many years. Yet, they are incredibly difficult and complex questions to answer. ' Music in our lives' takes an innovative approach to trying to answer these questions. It is drawn from a research project that spanned fourteen years, and closely followed the lives of over 150 children learning Music - from their seventh to their twenty second birthdays. This detailed longitudinal approach helped the authors probe a number of important issues. For example, how do you define Music al skill and ability? Is it true, as many assume, that continuous engagement in performance is the sole way in which those skills can be developed? What are the consequences of trends and behaviours observed amongst the general public, and their listening consumption. After presenting an overview and detailed case study explorations of Music al lives, the book provides frameworks and theory for further investigation and discussion. It tries to present an holistic interpretation of these studies, and looks at their implications for Music al development and education. Accessibly written by three leading researchers in the fields of Music education and Music psychology, this book makes a powerful contribution to understanding the dynamic and vital context of Music in our lives.
Gary E. McPherson |
Jane W. Davidson |
Robert Faulkner
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In the discussions and debates surrounding liturgical Music of the past fifty years, Music theorists, critics, and historians have contributed little, and their counsel has rarely been sought. Whenever the matter of liturgical Music arises, most often in parishes, but sometimes in episcopal conferences or in the academy or in Vatican documents, the nature of the Music , as Music , almost never affects the discussion. With Sacred Treasure, Joseph Swain, a distinguished Music ologist and accomplished performer, attempts to change that. He offers a theory for building authentic traditions of liturgical Music for Roman Catholic parishes. This book is an exercise in pragmatic Music criticism. By providing a rational basis for evaluating the essential issues, Swain seeks to show how a spiritually wholesome stability might supplant the confusion. Sacred Treasure shows how the hard facts of Music must be taken into account in any holistic conception and any lasting form of liturgical Music .
Joseph Peter Swain
Music
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Why did jazz become a dominant popular Music genre in the 1920s and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s? Why did heavy metal, punk rock and hiphop find their way from sub-cultures to the established Music industry? What are the effects of new communication technologies and the Internet on the creation of Music in the early 21st century? These and other questions are answered by Peter Tschmuck through an integrated model of creativity and innovation that is based on an international history of Music industry since Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. Thus, the history of the Music industry is described in full detail. By discussing the historic process of Music production, distribution and reception the author highlights several revolutions in the Music industry that were caused by the inference of aesthetic, technological, legal, economic, social and political processes of change. On the basis of an integrated model of creativity and innovation, an explanation is given on how the processes and structures of the present Music industry will be altered by the ongoing digital revolution, which totally changed the value-added network of the production, dissemination and use of Music . For the second edition, the author has reworked chapter 9 in order to include all the developments which shaped the Music industry in the first decade of the 21st century – from Napster to cloud-based Music services and even beyond.
Peter Tschmuck
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Music education thrives on philosophical inquiry, the systematic and critical examination of beliefs and assumptions. Yet philosophy, often considered abstract and irrelevant, is often absent from the daily life of Music instructors. In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, editors Wayne D. Bowman and Ana Luc�a Frega have drawn together a variety of philosophical perspectives from the profession's most exciting scholars. Rather than relegating philosophical inquiry to moot questions and abstract situations, the contributors to this volume address everyday concerns faced by Music educators everywhere, demonstrating that philosophy offers a way of navigating the daily professional life of Music education and proving that critical inquiry improves, enriches, and transforms instructional practice for the better. Questioning every Music al practice, instructional aim, assumption, and conviction in Music education, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education presents new and provocative approaches to the practice of teaching Music . Bowman and Frega go deeper than mere advocacy or a single point of view, but rather conceive of philosophy as a dynamic process of debate and reflection that must constantly evolve to meet the shifting landscapes of Music education. In place of the definitive answers often associated with philosophical work, Bowman and Frega offer a fascinating cross-section of often-contradictory approaches and viewpoints. By bringing together essays by both established and up-and-coming scholars from six continents, Bowman and Frega go beyond the Western monopoly of philosophical practice and acknowledge the diversity of cultures, instructors, and students who take part in Music education. This range of perspectives invites broader participation in Music instruction, and presents alternative answers to many of the fields most pressing questions and issues. By acknowledging the inherent plurality of Music educational practices, the Handbook opens up the field in new and important ways. Emphasizing clarify, fairness, rigor, and utility above all, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Educationwill challenge Music educators all over the world to make their own decisions and ultimately contribute to the conversation themselves.
Wayne Bowman |
Ana Lucía Frega
Music
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Four hands arrangements of Petite Suite and Six Epigraphes Antiques plus Prélude, Cortège and Air de Danse from L'Enfant Prodigue. Also, Ravel's arrangement for two pianos of Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
Claude Debussy |
Maurice Ravel |
Classical Piano Sheet Music
Music
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Stories based on real life individuals and situations deal with a Creole aristocrat, a mysterious killer who notifies his targeted victims, a man's obsession for a twelve-year-old girl he has never met, and a young writer encountering his subjects
Truman Capote
Fiction
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The book will deal with how, when and where in the brain Music is processed. The book is the first one to cover all core aspects of Music perception with regards to their neural correlates. Proposed chapters are: Decoding of acoustic information in the auditory brainstem and thalamus Auditory feature extraction (pitch, timbre, roughness, etc.) Auditory short term memory Auditory Gestalt perception Processing of Music al syntax [in Music , subsequent events are related according to certain regularities, or according to a " Music al syntax" Processing of Music al meaning Music and emotion Effects of Music listening on autonomic, hormonal, and immune system activity Effects of Music listening on motor processes
Stefan Koelsch
Medical
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"The fifth edition of this highly successful text, An Introduction to Social Psychology has been fully revised and updated. Accessibility for students has been improved, including better illustrations, greater use of colour and a more approachable format, as well as a wealth of online resources. Combining its traditional academic rigour with a contemporary level of cohesion, accessibility, pedagogy and instructor support, the fifth edition of An Introduction to Social Psychology provides the definitive treatment of social psychology"--
Miles Hewstone |
Klaus Jonas |
Wolfgang Stroebe
Psychology
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This is a book about Andean Music , its reception in Japan, and the resultant transcultural connection. Michelle Bigenho toured Japan with Bolivian Music ians and dancers and describes how the two nationalites connected with each other through song and dance.
Michelle Bigenho
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