The Music Practitioner
Subtitle: Research for the Music Performer, Teacher, and Listener
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780754604655
Subjects: Techniques of music; Reference; Music/Songbooks; Music; Instruction & Study - Appreciation; Psychological aspects
First sentence: In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the psychology of music, music education, musicology and music philosophy, with publications of books such as The Musical Mind (Sloboda, 1985); Sound and Structure (Paynter, 1992); Music Education: Trends and Issues (Plummeridge (ed.), 1996); The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (Rink (ed.), 1995); The Social Psychology of Music (Hargreaves and North (eds), 1997); Music in the Moment (Levinson, 1997); Music and the Emotions (Juslin and Sloboda (eds), 2002) and Musical Identities (Macdonald et al (eds), 2002); Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (Rink (ed.), 2002); The Science and Psychology of Music Performance (Parncutt and McPherson (eds), 2002).