Music and mind in everyday life

Author:   Eric Clarke (Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford) ,  Nicola Dibben (Department of Music, University of Sheffield) ,  Stephanie Pitts (Department of Music, University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198525578


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 October 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Eric Clarke (Heather Professor of Music, University of Oxford) ,  Nicola Dibben (Department of Music, University of Sheffield) ,  Stephanie Pitts (Department of Music, University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.347kg
ISBN:  

9780198525578


ISBN 10:   0198525575
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   22 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Music in people's lives Making Music 2: Motivations and skills 3: Expression and communication in performance 4: Improvising and composing Using Music 5: Hearing and listening 6: Individuals using music 7: Groups using music Acquiring Music 8: Lifelong musical development 9: Contexts for learning 10: The psychology of music - an overview

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It covers considerable ground most elegantly and picks out key topics as sites of debate and future research this book will be invaluable to scholars working across a number of disciplines. The British Journal of Music Education


It covers considerable ground most elegantly and picks out key topics as sites of debate and future research this book will be invaluable to scholars working across a number of disciplines. * The British Journal of Music Education *


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Eric Clarke is Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. He has published on topics including the psychology of performance, the perception and production of musical rhythm, 6music and meaning, music and ecological theory, and the impact of recording on listening. He is the author of Ways of Listening: An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning (OUP, 2005) and is co-editor (with Nicholas Cook) of Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects. Dr Nicola Dibben is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield. Her research is in the broad area of music, mind and culture. She has published numerous articles on music cognition and emotion, representations of gender in music, and popular music and has a book forthcoming in 2009 on the popular musician Björk. Dr Stephanie Pitts is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sheffield. She has research interests in music education and psychology, and is the author of two books including Valuing Musical Participation (2005), a study of adults' amateur involvement in music.

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