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.
Advances in Social-Psychology and Music Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman
September 06, 2016
This Festschrift honors the career of Charles P. Schmidt on the occasion of his retirement from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His main research focus has been the social-psychology of music education, including the subtopics of motivation in music learning, applied music teaching ...
Music and Familiarity: Listening, Musicology and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine King, Helen M. Prior
September 06, 2016
Familiarity underpins our engagement with music. This book highlights theoretical and empirical considerations about familiarity from three perspectives: listening, musicology and performance. Part I, ’Listening’, addresses familiarity as it relates to listeners’ behaviour and responses to music, ...
Musical Creativity: Insights from Music Education Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Oscar Odena
September 06, 2016
How do we develop musical creativity? How is musical creativity nurtured in collaborative improvisation? How is it used as a communicative tool in music therapy? This comprehensive volume offers new research on these questions by an international team of experts from the fields of music education, ...
I Drum, Therefore I Am: Being and Becoming a Drummer
1st Edition
By Gareth Dylan Smith
August 26, 2016
Despite their central role in many forms of music-making, drummers have been largely neglected in the scholarly literature on music and education. But kit drummers are increasingly difficult to ignore. While exponents of the drum kit are frequently mocked in popular culture, they are also widely ...
Studio-Based Instrumental Learning
1st Edition
By Kim Burwell
August 26, 2016
In Studio-Based Instrumental Learning, Kim Burwell investigates the nature of lesson interactions in instrumental teaching and learning. Studio lesson activity is represented as a private interaction, dealing with skill acquisition and reflecting a tradition based in apprenticeship, as well as the ...
Infant Musicality: New Research for Educators and Parents
1st Edition
By Johannella Tafuri, Elizabeth Hawkins, Graham Welch
April 07, 2016
What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen to music? Is their auditory sensitivity developed before their birth? At what age do they start singing, and clapping their hands? How can their musical development be improved? These (and other) ...
The Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA
1st Edition
By Anne Dhu McLucas
July 28, 2011
The Musical Ear: Oral Tradition in the USA provides a wide-ranging look at the role played by music that is passed on orally without the use of notation, in the folk, popular and art musics of North America. Professor McLucas argues that without the broad underlying oral repertoire of folk music, ...
Infant Musicality: New Research for Educators and Parents
1st Edition
By Johannella Tafuri, Elizabeth Hawkins, Graham Welch
February 28, 2009
What can infants hear? What are their reactions to music? Is it useful for them to sing and listen to music? Is their auditory sensitivity developed before their birth? At what age do they start singing, and clapping their hands? How can their musical development be improved? These (and other) ...