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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Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation
Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species.
Simeon Alev
25th Jun 2020
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Aural Education: Reconceptualising Ear Training in Higher Music Learning
This book explores the practice of musical ‘aural training’ from historical, pedagogical, psychological, musicological, and cultural perspectives, and uses these to draw implications for its pedagogy, particularly within the context of higher music education.
Monika Andrianopoulou
18th Oct 2019
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Leading Musically
This book examines what musical leadership is, by delving into the choral conductor role, what goes on in the music-making moment and what it takes to do it well.
Dag Jansson
9th Apr 2019
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Research-Creation in Music and the Arts: Towards a Collaborative Interdiscipline
This book examines the concept of research-creation, exploring its potential to bridge artistic creation and academic research, with a focus on music, while offering a theoretical model and practical examples for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Sophie Stévance & Serge Lacasse
7th Feb 2019
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Musical Creativity Revisited: Educational Foundations, Practices and Research
This book explores the diverse ways musical creativity is developed and researched across educational and community settings, offering practical examples, theoretical insights, and methodological guidance for students, educators, and researchers.
Oscar Odena
7th Feb 2019
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Music and Empathy
This volume explores the role of empathy in music, examining its impact across music education, therapy, and performance, while offering insights from diverse psychological, philosophical, and cognitive perspectives.
Elaine King & Caroline Waddington
4th Apr 2018
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Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations
This book explores the profound interplay between body, space, and sound, examining how sonic experiences shape perception and interaction across interdisciplinary contexts, from music and movement to gaming and interactive art.
Clemens Wöllner
4th Apr 2018
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Listening in Action: Teaching Music in the Digital Age
Listening in Action explores how contemporary music listening experiences, shaped by digital technologies, impact students’ engagement, identity development, and music education, offering insights to help educators connect with today’s diverse music listeners.
Rebecca Rinsema
2nd Nov 2017
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Embodiment of Musical Creativity: The Cognitive and Performative Causality of Musical Composition
Embodiment of Musical Creativity offers an innovative look at the interdisciplinary nature of creativity in musical composition.
Zvonimir Nagy
26th Oct 2017
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The Tangible in Music: The Tactile Learning of a Musical Instrument
In an age dominated by digital music, Marko Aho explores the enduring human connection to playing musical instruments, examining how the tactile interaction between musicians and their instruments shapes learning, style, and the joy of music-making, with a focus on Finnish kantele traditions.
Marko Aho
18th Jul 2017
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Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education
This edited volume explores how selected researchers, students and academics name and frame creative teaching and learning as constructed through the rationalities, practices, relationships, events, objects and systems that are brought to educational sites and developed by learning communities.
Elizabeth Haddon & Pamela Burnard
30th Jun 2017
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Music, Technology, and Education: Critical Perspectives
This volume draws together critical perspectives in three overarching areas in which technology is used to support music education: music production; game technology; musical creation, experience and understanding.
Andrew King & Evangelos Himonides
30th Jun 2017
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Communities of Musical Practice
Ailbhe Kenny explores how diverse musical groups – amateur and professional, young and old – form communities of musical practice, using case studies from Ireland to examine the social processes of musical learning and the transformative role of music in building community across different sociocultural contexts.Ailbhe Kenny
25th May 2017
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Developing the Musician: Contemporary Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
This book explores how formative experiences shape musical development and identity across classical and popular traditions, offering insights into education, community practices, and contemporary research in music psychology.Mary Stakelum
30th Nov 2016
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Advanced Musical Performance: Investigations in Higher Education Learning
This book explores the journey to advanced musical performance, combining psychological and educational research to examine the factors that shape expertise, professionalism, and performance learning across diverse musical genres, with a focus on the pivotal role of higher education.
Ioulia Papageorgi & Graham Welch
8th Nov 2016