SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
About the Book Series
The theme for the series is the psychology of music, broadly defined. Topics include (amongst others): musical development and learning at different ages; musical cognition and context; applied musicology; culture, mind and music; creativity, composition, and collaboration; micro to macro perspectives on the impact of music on the individual – from neurological studies through to social psychology; the development of advanced performance skills; music learning within and across different musical genres; musical behaviour and development in the context of special educational needs; music education; therapeutic applications of music; and affective perspectives on musical learning. The series seeks to present the implications of research findings for a wide readership, including user-groups (such as music teachers, policy makers, leaders and managers, parents and carers, music professionals working in a range of formal, non-formal and informal settings), as well as the international academic teaching and research communities and their students. A key distinguishing feature of the series is its broad focus that draws on basic and applied research from across the globe under the umbrella of SEMPRE’s distinctive mission, which is to promote and ensure coherent and symbiotic links between education, music and psychology research. There are now over 45 books in the series.
Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation
1st Edition
By Mark Reybrouck
November 30, 2021
Musical Sense-Making: Enaction, Experience, and Computation broadens the scope of musical sense-making from a disembodied cognitivist approach to an experiential approach. Revolving around the definition of music as a temporal and sounding art, it argues for an interactional and experiential ...
Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance
1st Edition
By Gilvano Dalagna, Sara Carvalho, Graham F. Welch
October 29, 2021
Desired Artistic Outcomes in Music Performance is about empowering musicians to achieve their professional and personal goals in music. The narrative argues that developing musicians should be supported in conceptualizing and achieving their desired artistic outcomes (DAO), as these have been ...
Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation: A Cognitive Approach
1st Edition
By Stein Solstad
September 02, 2021
Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists, Lage Lund...
New Approaches in Applied Musicology: A Common Framework for Music Education and Psychology Research
1st Edition
By Adam Ockelford, Graham Welch
March 31, 2021
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. It is ...
Musical Creativity Revisited: Educational Foundations, Practices and Research
1st Edition
By Oscar Odena
February 07, 2019
How is creativity understood and facilitated across music education settings? What is the power of creativity in enhancing individual and group learning? How is musical creativity used as a tool for cross-community integration? How can we research the interactions of those engaged in musical ...
Research-Creation in Music and the Arts: Towards a Collaborative Interdiscipline
1st Edition
By Sophie Stévance, Serge Lacasse
February 07, 2019
Since the 1970s, the landscape of higher education and research has been considerably altered by the integration of the arts within the university environment. Even though a form of research is inherent to artistic creation, the creative process is not comparable to the established procedures ...
Body, Sound and Space in Music and Beyond: Multimodal Explorations
1st Edition
Edited
By Clemens Wöllner
April 04, 2018
Body and space refer to vital and interrelated dimensions in the experience of sounds and music. Sounds have an overwhelming impact on feelings of bodily presence and inform us about the space we experience. Even in situations where visual information is artificial or blurred, such as in virtual ...
Music and Empathy
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine King, Caroline Waddington
April 04, 2018
In recent years, empathy has received considerable research attention as a means of understanding a range of psychological phenomena, and it is fast drawing attention within the fields of music psychology and music education. This volume seeks to promote and stimulate further research in music and ...
Listening in Action: Teaching Music in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Rebecca Rinsema
November 01, 2017
In an age when students come to class with more varied music listening preferences and experiences than ever before, music educators can find themselves at a loss for how to connect with their students. Listening in Action provides the beginnings of a solution to this problem by characterizing ...
Embodiment of Musical Creativity: The Cognitive and Performative Causality of Musical Composition
1st Edition
By Zvonimir Nagy
October 26, 2017
Embodiment of Musical Creativity offers an innovative look at the interdisciplinary nature of creativity in musical composition. Using examples from empirical and theoretical research in creativity studies, music theory and cognition, psychology and philosophy, performance and education studies, ...
The Tangible in Music: The Tactile Learning of a Musical Instrument
1st Edition
By Marko Aho
July 17, 2017
In the age of digital music it seems striking that so many of us still want to produce music concretely with our bodies, through the movement of our limbs, lungs and fingers, in contact with those materials and objects which are capable of producing sounds. The huge sales figures of musical ...
Creative Teaching for Creative Learning in Higher Music Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Haddon, Pamela Burnard
June 30, 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. The...