Approaches to Meaning in Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Meaning in Music write by Byron Almén. This book was released on 2006-11-01. Approaches to Meaning in Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approaches to Meaning in Music presents a survey of the problems and issues inherent in pursuing meaning and signification in music, and attempts to rectify the conundrums that have plagued philosophers, artists, and theorists since the time of Pythagoras. This collection brings together essays that reflect a variety of diverse perspectives on approaches to musical meaning. Established music theorists and musicologists cover topics including musical aspect and temporality, collage, borrowing and association, musical symbols and creative mythopoesis, the articulation of silence, the mutual interaction of cultural and music-artistic phenomena, and the analysis of gesture. Contributors are Byron Almén, J. Peter Burkholder, Nicholas Cook, Robert S. Hatten, Patrick McCreless, Jann Pasler, and Edward Pearsall.
Approaches to Meaning in Music. Musical Meaning and Interpretation
Approaches to Meaning in Music. Musical Meaning and Interpretation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Meaning in Music. Musical Meaning and Interpretation write by Byron Almin. This book was released on 2006. Approaches to Meaning in Music. Musical Meaning and Interpretation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. [An invaluable source of diverse perspectives on the subject of musical meaning].
Ways of Listening
Ways of Listening - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ways of Listening write by Eric Clarke. This book was released on 2005-07-21. Ways of Listening available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, many psychologists and cognitive scientists have published their views on the psychology of music. Unfortunately, this scientific literature has remained inaccessible to musicologists and musicians, and has neglected their insights on the subject. In Ways of Listening, musicologist Eric Clarke explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. Clarke outlines an "ecological approach" to understanding the perception of music. The way we hear and understand music is not simply a function of our brain structure or of the musical "codes" given to us by culture, Clarke argues. Instead, cognitive, psychoacoustical, and semiotic issues must be considered within the physical and social contexts of listening. In essence, Clarke adapts John Gibson's influential ecological theory of perception to the complex process of perceiving music. In addition to making a theoretical argument, the author offers a number of case studies to illustrate his concept. For example, he analyzes the experience of listening to Jimi Hendrix's performance of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969. Clarke examines how Hendrix's choice of instrument and venue, use of distortion, and the political climate in which he performed all had an impact on his audience's perception of the anthem. A complex convergence of broad cultural contexts and specific musical features - the entire "ecology" of the listening experience - is responsible for this performance's impact. Including both the best psychological research and careful musicological scholarship, Clarke's book offers the most complex and insightful perspective on musical meaning to date. It will be of interest to musicologists, musicians, psychologists, and scholars of aesthetics.
Music and the Child
Music and the Child - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and the Child write by Natalie Sarrazin. This book was released on 2016-06-14. Music and the Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children's identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children's natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I'm working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children's lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Alternative Approaches in Music Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternative Approaches in Music Education write by Ann C. Clements. This book was released on 2010-10-16. Alternative Approaches in Music Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum. Find innovative ideas and models of successful practice to incorporate into your teaching, whether in school, university, or community settings. Close the gap between music inside and outside the music classroom and spark student interest. The diversity of these real-world case studies will inspire questioning and curiosity, stimulate lively discussion and innovation, and provide much food for thought. Designed for music teachers, preservice music education students, and music education faculty, this project was supported by Society for Music Teacher Education's (SMTE) Areas of Strategic Planning and Action on Critical Examination of the Curriculum, which will receive a portion of the proceeds.
