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Flourishing in Music Education: Lessons from Positive Psychology presents research, theory, and best practices about potential pitfalls, as well as strategies for how successful music teachers can negotiate issues in the wake of the COVID-19 climate, both on a daily and long-term basis.

This Handbook illustrates the many ways that progressive rock and metal music forge striking engagements with literary texts and themes. The authors and their objects of analytic inquiry offer global and diverse perspectives on these genres and their literary connections.

This volume honors and extends the contributions of educator and scholar Dr. Michael J. Budds to the field of musicology, particularly the study of American music. As the longtime editor of two book series for the College Music Society, Budds nurtured a wide range of scholarship in American music and made a lasting impact on the field.

From the era of the 18th-century European Enlightenment to the present, music has long claimed residency in and served as an important conduit for philosophy. This book examines the various ways the writings of ten contemporary philosophers (from Adorno and Bloch to Badiou and Žižek) attempt to metamorphose philosophical thought on the model of

This book contains a collection of essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists on the ethnomusicology of western art music, exploring a range of issues including music in orchestral outreach programmes, new audiences for classical music concerts, and music and conflict transformation. This book was originally published as a special issue of

This volume gathers together twenty articles from among the best scholarly writing on rock music published in academic journals over the past two decades. These diverse essays reflect the wide range of approaches that scholars in various disciplines have applied to the study of rock and provide an overview of the current state of research in the fi

The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scholars have dealt with the associated areas of dance and scenery, as well as newer disciplines such as studies of patronage, gender, and semiotics. While most of the essays in the volume perta

This volume reprints articles that cover an array of significant twentieth-century operas and critical questions about them. The anthologized articles are organized according to the place of origin of the operas discussed in each of them. In contrast, the introduction follows a thematic approach and considers questions of genre and reception; persp

This volume brings together for the first time book chapters, articles and position pieces from the debates on music and identity. Both classic and more recent contributions are included, as well as material on related issues such as music's role as a resource in making and performing identities and music scholarship's ambivalent relationship with

This volume presents a selection of scholarly studies of sacred and liturgical music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, published in the last twenty or so years. The nineteen reprinted articles are arranged by country and cover music from France, the Flemish Low Countries, Italy, Germany, England and Spain. Spanning a broad range of scholarl

This volume of essays addresses traditional and contemporary thought on theory and practice in music education for all age groups, from the very young to the elderly. The material spans a broad range of subject areas from history and philosophy to art and music, and considers issues such as curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and evaluation, as well a

This selection of classic essays on music performance practice of the Middle Ages addresses the most crucial of performers' decisions: pitch, rhythm and performing forces, as well as related matters such as proportions, tunings and the need for ornamentation. The volume includes essays on all types of music - monophony and polyphony, sacred and sec