Routledge series
The collaborative series between Routledge and Sempre explores the psychology of music through a wide range of topics, including musical learning, cognition, creativity and therapeutic applications, while highlighting the global impact of research on education, policy, and practice.
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© Sempre Music and Social Inclusion International Research and Practice in Complex Settings
This comprehensive volume explores how music fosters social inclusion, enhances individual and group cohesion, and supports cross-community work in post-conflict settings, featuring new research by an international team of experts.
Oscar Odena
2nd Jan 2025
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© Sempre Recorded Music in Creative Practices Mediation, Performance, Education
The fourteen chapters in this book bring fresh insight to the art and craft of recording music and offer readers ways to bridge research and pedagogy in diverse educational, academic, and music industry contexts.
Georgia Volioti & Daniel Barolsky
2nd Jan 2025
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© Sempre Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Music Research
Music and Science offers an accessible introduction to a systematic approach to music research, providing practical guidance to navigate the field using appropriate methods.
Tuomas Eerola
25th Nov 2024
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© Sempre Music and Mental Imagery
Music and Mental Imagery offers a critical overview of cutting-edge research on the different types of mental imagery associated with music, drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, musicology, clinical psychology, and music education.
Mats B. Küssner, Liila Taruffi & Georgia A. Floridou
27th May 2024
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Teenage Boys, Musical Identities, and Music Education An Australian Narrative Inquiry
This book explores the musical identities of teenage boys in their final year at an Australian boys’ school, highlighting the role of music education in supporting their mental health and wellbeing.
Jason Goopy
2nd May 2024
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1st Edition Body and Force in Music: Metaphoric Constructions in Music Psychology
Youn Kim examines the metaphors of “body” and “force” in music psychology, tracing their historical influence across theories of perception, pedagogy, rhythm, and aesthetics, to reveal how these concepts continue to shape our understanding of music today.
Youn Kim
25th Sep 2023
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Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone, 1900–1930
Vikram Sampath explores the pioneering role of women from India’s courtesan community in embracing early recording technology, revealing their impact on the Indian classical music industry and their contributions to The Gramophone Company’s expeditions.
Vikram Sampath
25th Sep 2023
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Multilevel Grounding A Theory Of Musical Meaning
Multilevel Grounding introduces a new approach to understanding musical meaning, proposing that musical signification arises from the interaction of various levels, shaping how listeners experience and interpret music.
Mihailo Antović
25th Sep 2023
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Expanding Professionalism in Music and Higher Music Education: A Changing Game
This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education.
Heidi Westerlund & Helena Gaunt
25th Jul 2022
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The Artist and Academia
The Artist and Academia explores the relationship between artistic and academic ways of knowing. Historically, these have often been presented as opposites; the former characterised as passionate and intuitive and the latter portrayed as systematic and rigorous.
Helen Phelan & Graham F. Welch
30th Mar 2022
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Children’s Guided Participation in Jazz Improvisation: A Study of the ‘Improbasen’ Learning Centre
This book springs out of a two-year ethnographic study of the teaching and learning activity at Improbasen – a Norwegian private learning centre that offers beginner’s instrumental tuition within jazz improvisation for children.
Guro Gravem Johansen
30th Nov 2021
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© Sempre Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation
This publication expands musical sense-making beyond a disembodied cognitivist perspective, advocating for an interactional and experiential approach that emphasises music as a temporal, sounding art, blending sensory richness with cognitive principles.
Mark Reybrouck
30th Nov 2021
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Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance
This publication explores how supporting musicians in defining and achieving their artistic goals is essential for successful career transitions during and beyond higher education.
Gilvano Dalagna, Sara Carvalho & Graham F. Welch
29th Oct 2021
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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation: A Cognitive Approach
Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation.
Stein Solstad
31st May 2021
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New Approaches in Applied Musicology: A Common Framework for Music Education and Psychology Research
This book presents four extended essays that are rooted in the growing interdisciplinary field of applied musicology, in which music theory – in particular, the zygonic conjecture – is used to inform thinking in the domains of music psychology, music education and music therapy research.
Adam Ockelford & Graham Welch
31st Mar 2021