Sound Musicianship is a book for music educators and musicians about musicianship - about musical skills, abilities, habits, sensibilities and understandings. Musicianship is explored as a form of craftsmanship. Like most crafts, music requires a balance of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that contribute to a highly tuned ability to appreciate and express music. In particular the book explores general trends that influence musicianship in the twenty-first century, such as an increased reliance on digital media, greater awareness of the neurological basis for musical behaviour, a renewed interest in connections between bodily movements and musical expression, and increased cultural plurality resulting from more frequent travel, increased levels of migration and ubiquitous telecommunications. The book has a deliberate focus on the developmental aspects of musicianship, which will benefit those hoping to advance their own music learning or that of others. It includes a diverse range of views and perspectives on musicianship and is organised into five sections. The first four sections explore the implications of music understood as sound, experience, motion and culture, respectively. In these sections, leading researchers and thinkers outline important issues and debates that are relevant to developing the crafts of music making and they share insights into recent trends and understandings. The final section of the book looks at educational considerations and provides a series of case studies that document innovative approaches to developing musicianship. Readers will encounter some new, interesting and thought-provoking ideas within these pages. As we move further into the twenty-first century - with all the opportunities and challenges for music making it brings - the requirement to review our concepts of musicianship training will intensify, and the definition of a "sound basis" for a contemporary musicianship will evolve. This book is intended to help stimulate and inform that evolutionary process.

Brown, Andrew R

Cambridge Scholars Press

CSP Classic Texts

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Unabridged edition, PS, 2012

Jul 01, 2012

xxiv, 368 pages : 22 cm
Sound Musicianship is a book for music educators and musicians about musicianship about musical skills, abilities, habits, sensibilities and understandings. Musicianship is explored as a form of craftsmanship. Like most crafts, music requires a balance of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that contribute to a highly tun
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contributors -- Preface -- Musicianship in a globalised world / Andrew R. Brown -- Technological perspectives: understanding music as sound and data : Musical sounds and musical signals / Joe Wolfe ; Sound analysis and musicology / David Hirst ; Computation and music / Heinrich K. Taube ; Musicianship in the digital age / Andrew Hugill ; Musicianship after data: virtuosity as hyperindustrial skill / James Tobias -- Psychological perspectives: understanding music perception and imagination : Psychoacoustics and cognition for musicians / Richard Parncutt ; Musicianship and the brain / Dawn L. Merrett and Sarah J. Wilson ; Cognitive tools to understand musical organisation / Irène Deliège ; From sound to symbol: a pitch for developing aural awareness / Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka ; How musical is man? An evolutionary perspective / John C. Bispham ; Musicianship for meaningful engagement / Steve Dillon -- Physical perspectives: understanding musical gesture and space : Demonstrating musical knowledge / Jane Davidson ; Movement and musical expression / Geoff Luck and Petri Toiviainen ; Instrument making as music making: a slow approach to musicianship / Koji Matsunobu ; Expressive musical interface design / Bert Bongers ; Embodied, situated and distributed musicianship / David Borgo ; Sonic ecologies / Damián Keller -- Cultural perspectives: understanding music as human construction : Music education for a world of stylistic plurality and blending / Jim Chapman ; The roles of music and culture in children's lives / Andrea Emberly ; Online musical cultures / Hugh Brown ; SoundArt and performativity / Kersten Glandien ; Notating music and sound / Robert Davidson ; Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! / Gillian Wills -- Educational perspectives: learning music and developing musicianship : Democratic musical learning: how the participatory revolution in new media challenges the culture of music education / Heidi Partti and Heidi Westerlund ; Electroacoustic ear training / Eldad Tsabary ; A tale of creative learning: jam2jam as a tool for understanding the role of music in media / Eva Sœthe and Per Sköld ; Sound media musicianship / Greg Jenkins, Lloyd Barrett and Andrew R. Brown ; A musicianship for the recording studio / Paul Draper ; Thoughts on the training of a music student at university level / Richard Vella

"Sound Musicianship is a book for music educators and musicians about musicianship--about musical skills, abilities, habits, sensibilities and understandings. Musicianship is explored as a form of craftsmanship. Like most crafts, music requires a balance of theoretical knowledge and practical skills that contribute to a highly tuned ability to appreciate and express music. In particular, the book explores general trends that influence musicianship in the twenty-first century, such as an increased reliance on digital media, greater awareness of the neurological basis for musical behaviour, a renewed interest in connections between bodily movements and musical expression, and increased cultural plurality resulting from more frequent travel, increased levels of migration and ubiquitous telecommunications.The book has a deliberate focus on the developmental aspects of musicianship, which will benefit those hoping to advance their own music learning or that of others. It includes a diverse range of views and perspectives on musicianship and is organised into five sections. The first four sections explore the implications of music understood as sound, experience, motion and culture, respectively. In these sections, leading researchers and thinkers outline important issues and debates that are relevant to developing the crafts of music making and they share insights into recent trends and understandings. The final section of the book looks at educational considerations and provides a series of case studies that document innovative approaches to developing musicianship.Readers will encounter some new, interesting and thought-provoking ideas within these pages. As we move further into the twenty-first century--with all the opportunities and challenges for music making it brings--the requirement to review our concepts of musicianship training will intensify, and the definition of a "sound basis" for a contemporary musicianship will evolve. This book is intended to help stimulate and inform that evolutionary process."--Site Web de l'éditeur

2023-06-28