Sound Musicianship: Understanding the Crafts of Music.

Edited by Andrew Brown: Musicianship is considered to be a person’s ability to perceive, understand and create sonic experiences. Musicianship involves awareness of musical features, the facility to articulate and interpret these features and their effect, and a capacity to demonstrate musical understanding through analysis, imitation and generation.

Sound Thinking

Available in eBook and  Hard copy from Lulu.com

Sound Reflections

Sound Reflections is a student reflective journal and diary with attitude. It encourages thinking about all music activity in the classroom, instrumental studio and ensemble, providing a powerful tool for assessment of progress and thinking.

DIScoveringABILITIES

Global Jam for ISME Community Music Commission: Community Music Activities Commission is planning a series of  Global Jams  led by Dr Don Devito to communicate between people in different regions. The project will involve partnerships between people across the world jamming and performing over the internet using Skype and jam2jam.

Music As a Natural Resource

The International Council for Caring Communities

Dear Colleagues, We would like to share with you the UN website where our compendium has now been posted. Please share it with others! Patrick Schmidt, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Music Education Westminster Choir College – Rider University

Music, Meaning and Transformation

Book: 1 in the Meaningful Music Making for Life Series

“I found this book inspiring, and allowed myself to stop at different places of interest in order to critically explore andfurther enjoy them. In my view, the major innovation of Dillon’s book is his departure for developing his vision of music education through children.”  Laor, L. (2010). “On the seashore of endless worlds, children play” Dillon’s Music, meaning and transformation: A review essay. IJEA. Purchase

Songs of Resilience

Book: 3 in the Meaningful Music Making for Life Series

The chapters in this book form a persuasive chorus of social practices that advocate the use of music to build a capacity for resilience in individuals and groups. As a whole they exemplify music projects that share common features aligned with an ecological view of reform in health, education and social work systems. Purchase

Navigating Music and Sound Education

We rarely have the opportunity and time to engage with the practicalities of music teaching through the lens of evidence based practice. This book provides us with a wonderful exception that is accessible to beginning and established teachers. It contains a wide range of stimulating and thought provoking material that draws on real-world experiences and events, which are contextualised, informed and structured by theory. This is a powerful combination that we can visit again and again for insight and inspiration. Congratulations to all involved, particularly the editors for shaping such a valuable contribution!” —Professor Graham F. Welch. Purchase

Meaningful Music making For Life

Meaningful Music Making for Life Series Editors: Steve Dillon and Liz Mackinlay The  CSP Meaningful music making for life series considers music making and its effects as a lifetime pursuit. Each book examines the role and tensions of music-makers across ages and in the locations where meaningful engagement with music making takes place. Whilst it is philosophically an exploration of the notions of meaningful engagement presented in the first book of the series – Music, Meaning and Transformation, it undertakes this process from a global perspective and in a phenomenological exploration of this theory.

savetoDISC

The save to DISC (Documenting Innovation in Sound Communities) Research Network examines and documents the qualities and relationships between music, meaning, cognitive and social benefit, health and well being. The research focuses upon meaningful engagement with music making in schools and communities.