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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the creative processes behind musical composition, integrating theoretical insights on creativity with innovative empirical research to shed light on compositional thinking and problem-solving. Dave Collins 11th Oct 2016

This book explores the dynamics of ensemble performance, examining how musicians interact and share information through their instruments, offering a holistic perspective grounded in musicology, psychology, and philosophy, with practical insights for performers, researchers, and educators. J. Murphy McCaleb 19th Oct 2016

Coughing and Clapping: Investigating Audience Experience explores the processes and experiences of attending live music events from the initial decision to attend through to audience responses and memories of a performance after it has happened. Karen Burland & Stephanie Pitts 8th Nov 2016

This book examines collaborative creativity in music, exploring how social interactions shape compositional thought, interdisciplinary collaboration, and educational practices, offering new insights into the collective nature of creative processes across composition, performance, musicology, and education. Margaret S. Barrett 8th Nov 2016

Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice brings together internationally renowned scholars and practitioners to explore the cultural, institutional, theoretical, methodological, epistemological, ethical and practical aspects and implications of the rapidly evolving area of artistic research in music.  Mine Doğantan-Dack 8th Nov 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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