The Music of Being

2015-03-21 Psychology

Author : Alison Levinge
Release : 2015-03-21
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Music of Being by : Alison Levinge

Download or read book The Music of Being written by Alison Levinge. This book was released on 2015-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the work of key child development theorists informs music therapy practice with children and families. Focusing primarily on the theoretical thinking and understanding of the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Alison Levinge highlights how his theories resonate with the central aspects of music therapy. Central to the book are Winnicott's ideas on play and an exploration of his understanding of the psychological processes of 'holding'. Winnicott's theories are given greater depth and understanding by referencing the writings of Adam Phillips and Christopher Bollas. Consideration of relevant aspects of Bowlby's theories will also be included. Knowledge of these theories of child development helps to support understanding of the music therapy process, making this book vital reading for both students and practitioners of music therapy.

Being Music

2020-09-21 Music

Author : Mark Miller
Release : 2020-09-21
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 687/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Being Music written by Mark Miller. This book was released on 2020-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improvisation is a practice of musical exploration and discovery. What we explore is our lived experience and what we discover we share with our audience. As improvisers, our creative resources include sense perception, imagination, somatic presence, and the vitality of emotional expression. In collaboration we develop relationships that serve the music and balance the priorities of self and others in the ensemble. Being Music describes the craft of improvisation as “spontaneous composition” including an awareness of form, compositional focus, theme and development, stillness and creative flow. Miller and Lande address the problem of perfectionism and offer strategies for overcoming judgmental thinking and other obstacles to creative spontaneity. Abundant written musical examples and exercises offer the reader ample opportunity to practice the principles outlined in the text. With over forty-five years of experience performing together, Miller and Lande's dialogical reflections on creativity and community offer a clear and practical guide to the creative process of improvisation for musicians of any style or genre, and at all levels of experience.

African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe

2015-11-24 Music

Author : Mhoze Chikowero
Release : 2015-11-24
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe written by Mhoze Chikowero. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

Your Music and People

2022-05 Advertising

Author : Derek Sivers
Release : 2022-05
Genre : Advertising
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 148/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Your Music and People written by Derek Sivers. This book was released on 2022-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a philosophy of getting your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected

Being Musically Attuned

2016-04-15 Music

Author : Erik Wallrup
Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Being Musically Attuned written by Erik Wallrup. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening according to mood is likely to be what most people do when they listen to music. We want to take part in, or even be part of, the emerging world of the musical work. Using the sources of musical history and philosophy, Erik Wallrup explores this extremely vague and elusive phenomenon, which is held to be fundamental to musical hearing. Wallrup unfolds the untold musical history of the German word for ’mood’, Stimmung, which in the 19th century was abundant in the musical aesthetics of the German-Austrian sphere. Martin Heidegger’s much-discussed philosophy of Stimmung is introduced into the field of music, allowing Wallrup to realise fully the potential of the concept. Mood in music, or, to be more precise, musical attunement, should not be seen as a peculiar kind of emotionality, but that which constitutes fundamentally the relationship between listener and music. Exploring mood, or attunement, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of the act of listening to music.

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