2nd Edition-Includes contributions from undergraduate music students as well as faculty

Boldly asserting that everyone can and should improvise The Art of Becoming sets out a framework for understanding improvisation as a universal capability and a social behavior with important implications for contemporary artistic practices pedagogy and music therapy.

A seminal work in music theory for over two decades Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm is foundational to new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition and recently being investigated in non-music fields from literary studies and poetics to physics and biology. This Twentieth Anniversary Edition makes the work readily available across this wide spectrum of scholarship.

Volume 1 - Works Written Before 2000-Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This first of the two-volume set covers works composed prior to the year 2000.

Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel- In the late 15th century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center singing and composing for the pope's private choir. Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late 15th-century sacred music these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies-a sonic analogue to the frescoes by Botticelli Perugino and their contemporaries thatadorn the chapel's walls. Author Jesse Rodin uses a comparative approach to uncover this aesthetically and intellectually rich musical tradition. Confronting longstanding problems concerning the authenticity and chronology of Josquin's music while also offering nuanced readings of understudied works by his contemporaries the book contextualizes Josquin by locating intersections between his music and the wider soundscape of the Cappella Sistina. Central to Rodin's argument is the idea that these pieces lived in performance and the author demonstrates the interpretations of the music prevalent at the time in which it was composed through a series of exquisitely produced recordings on the companion website. Josquin's Rome is an essential resource for Musicologists scholars of the Italian Renaissance and enthusiasts of early music in general.

with Complex Needs Paperback- There are around 40 000 children and young people in the UK alone with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties in special schools and in mainstream education. Research has indicated that provision is at best patchy despite the widely held belief that music is beneficial both in its own right and to promote wider development. This book seeks to foster progress in what is still a young discipline by reflecting on contemporary thinking and practice identifying key issues introducing recent and ongoing research and providing practical advice for practitioners including teachers therapists and community musicians.

Experiencing Music Expressing Culture- These captivating case studies include eyewitness accounts of performances interviews with performers and vivid illustrations. Each volume is packaged with a 70-minute CD that contains representative examples of the music discussed in the book. Ngoma is the hallmark of music in East Africa and a performance that incorporates drumming singing and dancing. Using several towns and villages as examples this case study discusses how Ngoma performances function as important means of mediating conflicts solidifying community and ethnicity and communicating traditional values and social histories.

Fugal Improvisation through Figured Bass

The Psychology of Performance Improvisation and Composition

Origins and Development of Musical Competence

The Unheard Pakistan

Human Evolution Archaeology and the Origins of Musicality

Emotion and its Role in Literature Music and Art

Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it Was Made

The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City

Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps

and the Soundtrack of Israeli History

Globalization Cultural Communities and Pop Music in France 1958-1980

in 21st Century Music Teacher Education

in Music Education