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  • Teaching Music Musically (Classic Edition)

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    'There are countless gems within these pages ... Swanwick seems to write from more experience as a musician and teacher than most others who write for this audience. There is a real sense of his having been there. - Patricia Shehan Campbell, Professor of Music, University of Washington, USA'... contains the essential and highly valued hallmark of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Developing Discourse in Music Education

    The selected works of Keith Swanwick

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Music, Mind and Education

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    Keith Swanwick explores the psychological and sociological dimensions of musical experience and the implications of these for children's development and music education in schools and colleges. Music is seen, with the other arts, as contributing to the growth of mind, with deep psychological roots in play. Swanwick examines the ways in which children make their own music, and confirms that there ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Basis for Music Education

    by Keith Swanwick ...
    First Published in 1979. Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Keith Swanwick investigates questions such as: What is music? Is music meaningful? Does music refine our feelings and emotions? If so, how? The discussion of questions forms a conceptual framework which will motivate further thinking and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Musical Knowledge

    Intuition, analysis and music education

    by Prof Keith Swanwick, Keith Swanwick ...
    The understanding of music involves the mastery of its various layers of meaning. Sometimes this meaning can be acquired through human insight; at other times, it can be learned. The central concern of Musical Knowledge is the tension between intuitive and analytical ways of making sense of the world. Keith Swanwick examines this relationship on three levels: in considering music as a way of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    Is Music a Universal Language?

    by Kathleen Marie Higgins ...
    "Higgins' love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended."— ChoiceFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Improvisation

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice

    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom.The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two related ways. On the one hand, they attend to the lived practices of improvisation both within and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life

    by Gary Ansdell ...
    Series series Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
    Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives, and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of approaching these topical questions, drawing from Ansdell's long experience as a music therapist, and from the latest thinking on music in everyday life. Vibrant and moving examples from music therapy situations are twinned ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Anti-Group

    Destructive Forces in the Group and their Creative Potential

    by Morris Nitsun ...
    Series series Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
    The 'anti-group' is a major conceptual addition to the theory and practice of group psychotherapy. It comprises the negative, disruptive elements, which threaten to undermine and even destroy the group, but when contained, have the potential to mobilise the group's creative processes. Understanding the 'anti-group' gives therapists new perspectives on the nature of relationships and alternative ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

    Edited by Jonathan Savage ...
    The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers.The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary writing and contextualises these in both theoretical and practical terms. The extracts are accompanied by a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Music and Ethical Responsibility

    by Jeff R. Warren ...
    Discussions surrounding music and ethical responsibility bring to mind arguments about legal ownership and purchase. Yet the many ways in which we experience music with others are usually overlooked. Musical experience and practice always involve relationships with other people, which can place limitations on how we listen to and act upon music. In Music and Ethical Responsibility, Jeff R. Warren ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Music-in-Action

    Selected Essays in Sonic Ecology

    by Tia DeNora ...
    Series series Ashgate Contemporary Thinkers on Critical Musicology Series
    This volume brings together DeNora‘s work published between 1986 and 2007. It includes thirteen essays, some of which have had a major impact on the field. The chapters trace the development of her work from its early concern with musical meaning, historical ethnography and theeveryday perspective, to its current focus on music in action. Topics covered include Adorno on Schoenberg and Stravinsky, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD