The Music Practitioner

About this book

In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the psychology of music, music education, musicology and music philosophy, with publications of books such as The Musical Mind (Sloboda, 1985); Sound and Structure (Paynter, 1992); Music Education: Trends and Issues (Plummeridge (ed.), 1996); The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (Rink (ed.), 1995); The Social Psychology of Music (Hargreaves and North (eds), 1997); Music in the Moment (Levinson, 1997); Music and the Emotions (Juslin and Sloboda (eds), 2002) and Musical Identities (Macdonald et al (eds), 2002); Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (Rink (ed.), 2002); The Science and Psychology of Music Performance (Parncutt and McPherson (eds), 2002).