Why is music so important to most of us? How does music help us both in our everyday lives,
and in the more specialist context of music therapy? This book suggests a new way of …

Music pervades everyday life-in homes, on trains and planes, in cars and shops, at births
and deaths, at weddings and war, in concert halls, clubs, stadiums, and fields. In so many …

Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and
accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children's …

Music psychologists have established that some forms of musical activity improve
intellectual performance, spatial–temporal reasoning and other skills advantageous for …

How do we develop musical creativity? How is musical creativity nurtured in collaborative
improvisation? How is it used as a communicative tool in music therapy? This volume offers …

Simple Summary For humans, music is a powerful tool of emotional communication,
conveying affective states and modulating physiological states in ways that can influence …

We are just at the beginning stages of applying neuroscientific findings to music teaching. A
simple model of the learning cycle based on neuroscience is Sense→ Integrate→ Act …

Children express the cultures they bring into the classrooms through musical play. When
children are left to their own devices they dance, create songs, and play instruments …

There is general agreement that music is a universal trait of humankind, that Homo sapiens
as a species has the propensity for musical development and that musical potential is as …

Informed by her in-depth ethnomusical knowledge, the result of detailed fieldwork, Mans's
book is about musical worlds and how we as people inhabit them. The book asserts that an …