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Salvador, Karen; Knapp, Erika J.; Mayo, Whitney – Music Education Research, 2021
As of February 2020, 2119 people of all ages attended early childhood music or music therapy, played and sang in ensembles, or took lessons at two Community Music Schools. On March 13, both facilities closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and all activities shifted online. The purpose of this instrumental case study was to examine practical and…
Descriptors: Music Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Saarikallio, Suvi; Tervaniemi, Mari; Yrtti, Antti; Huotilainen, Minna – Music Education Research, 2019
While the use of musical parameters for emotional expression has been extensively studied, little is known about which specific musical parameters children at different ages are able to use for expressing specific emotions. We used a novel interface called Music Box that allows modification of musical parameters while music is being played in real…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Music Therapy, Music
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Dyndahl, Petter; Karlsen, Sidsel; Nielsen, Siw Graabraek; Skårberg, Odd – Music Education Research, 2017
With a hundred years (1912-2012) of Norwegian master's and doctoral theses written within the field of music as a backdrop, this article reports from an extensive study of the academisation of popular music in higher music education and research in Norway. Theoretically, the study builds on the sociology of culture and education in the tradition…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Foreign Countries, Music Teachers
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Batt-Rawden, Kari; Denora, Tia – Music Education Research, 2005
In this paper, the authors focus on informal learning as it is situated in and derived from everyday life experience (Lave, 1988; Lave and Wenger, 1991). Their concern is with informal musical learning and its link to health, well-being and the care of self, an area that has already received some attention from research in music therapy,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Music, Health Promotion, Well Being
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Perret, Daniel – Music Education Research, 2004
This paper aims to establish a link between the felt quality in musical expression and the psycho-somatic structure of the person playing. This includes specific areas of the body, a corresponding set of emotions and thought patterns, as well as the deeper needs of the person. Discernment of felt quality is facilitated by using the symbolic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Symbolic Learning, Music, Psychosomatic Disorders
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Silber, Laya – Music Education Research, 2005
The choir is a community with rules, relationships and purpose. When located in a prison, it takes on the therapeutic function of providing a protected space for expression and a context for reframing, even when its manifest goal is educational. This paper documents the establishment, by a professional musician and music educator, of a multi-vocal…
Descriptors: Music Therapy, Musicians, Females, Singing