Holistic Musical Thinking presents a comprehensive view of how people engage with music from a hands-on and heart-felt perspective. This approach embraces the teaching and learning processes as a multi-dimensional amalgamation of knowing, doing, and feeling through musical experiences. The result is a five-dimensional model that synthesizes cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning with curricular integration. With pedagogical applications, Holistic Musical Thinking offers a multi-faceted perspective that benefits both music teachers and their students. This innovative approach uses established research for a new model of musical thinking and taxonomy of musical engagement. Complete with classroom vignettes and pedagogical strategies, this book reframes musical thinking as a new direction in music education. Written for music teachers, teacher-educators, and their students, this book provides practical applications of the multi-dimensional Model of Holistic Musical Thinking for K-12 music education, and beyond.

Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more. Embodied-enactive concepts of action, perception, and personhood weave through the book's proposals. Practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors' praxial themes.

Presents ideas for teaching students to think musically. Enrich the music curriculum through classroom interaction and instruction. Appropriate for elementary through high school levels.

While the skills to identify and solve problems are becoming recognised as being increasingly important, there are not many good ways to help you acquire those skills. This book is designed to help you help you acquire those skills so as to be able to deal with undesirable situations, identify the right problem and provide the optimal acceptable solution from the range of prospective solutions.The needed skill for providing acceptable solutions is the ability to think differently to that of your contemporaries. You need to go beyond systems thinking and apply holistic thinking to the matter at hand. This book helps you develop that skill, building on the works of W. Edwards Deming (Quality), Peter Senge (systems thinking), Tom Peters, Peter Drucker and Michael Hammer and James Champy (management) to tell you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and provide you with the understanding of why it must be done. While systems thinking can help you to understand relationships in situations and think systemically and systematically, systems thinking alone cannot help you provide innovative solutions to complex problems. This is because understanding situations is only the first step on the journey that provides those innovative solutions. This book provides you with frameworks and classifications systemically and systematically starting by discussing thinking, then taking you through thinking about undesirable situations and problems and how to convert them to acceptable solutions.The book is split into three parts: * Part I. Thinking and ideas.* Part II. Using the ideas in problem-solving.* Part III. Innovative solutions to complex problems.Part I provides the thinking and communications tools which are used to create and communicate innovative solutions to complex problems. Chapter 2 introduces you to thinking and introduces some of the tools you can use to assist your creative thinking. Chapter 3 discusses ways to communicate ideas because there is little point in generating ideas if you are not going to do anything with them. Chapter 4 introduces nine Holistic Thinking Perspectives (HTP) as anchor points on the perspectives perimeter and more.Chapter 5: Introduces and provides an overview of critical thinking. Part II covers the problem-solving aspect of creating innovative solutions to complex problems. Chapter 6 introduces Active Brainstorming as a way to increase the numbers of ideas generated by brainstorming using the HTPs coupled with the Kipling questions "who, what, where, when, why and how". Chapter 7 discusses the nature of systems and complex systems.Chapter 8 discusses decision-making because decision-making is at the heart of problem-solving. Chapter 9 discusses problems and solutions, the assumptions behind problem-solving, ways to remedy problems and introduces a holistic approach to managing problems and solutions. Part III provides examples of innovative solutions to complex problems showing how the progressive perspectives went beyond systems thinking and contributed to the innovative solutions and concludes by suggesting things you can do to start to become an innovator.Chapter 10 provides a range of examples of holistic thinking. Each example not only illustrates how the problem-solving process was tailored but provides examples of other aspects of finding innovative solutions to complex problems such as where things went correctly and where and how things can and did go wrong.Chapter 11 provides macro and micro examples of perceiving several issues/systems from various points on the perspectives perimeter for different purposes, the insights obtained and the resulting innovative solutions. Chapter 12 provides suggestions for how you can go about creating your own innovative solutions to complex problems.This book also provides a definitive answer to the question, "what came first, the chicken or the egg?"

Music remains something of a mystery to many people—ephemeral sounds floating invisibly through the air—here, and then gone. This book begins with the basic question of what music actually is, scientifically, employing simple, clear explanations of wave theory and the acoustics of sound as part of God's natural creation. It presents accessible and fascinating explanations of some theories of the psychology of perception of music, how music speaks to the mind, emotions, and spirit. Some of these concepts have rarely been addressed outside the ivory tower and even more rarely been seen through the lens of Catholic theology. Moving from music and the individual to music in the culture and the Church, the author addresses numerous issues in the context of Catholic thought, including: immanence and transcendence in music the Real Presence and music Moral Theology, Natural Law and music ordered and disordered understandings of music as it relates to the emotions understanding the authentic meanings of "beauty" and "creativity" the real function of music in Catholic liturgy the role of music in evangelization This is a kind of "layman's handbook," a comprehensive theology of all things music, which anyone can understand, written by an internationally respected classical composer and music professor at a top secular university who is also a faithful Catholic. It sheds light on the mysteries of music and furthers the spiritual formation regarding music for Catholics of many ages and walks of life. It is groundbreaking in its comprehensive and holistic treatment of music from a Catholic perspective, and particularly timely in advocating for the renewal of the norms for music in liturgy found in the documents of Vatican II. It also presents one of the most penetrating critical examinations to be found of contemporary classical music, from an insider.

In The Mindful Musician: Mental Skills for Peak Performance, author Vanessa Cornett offers guidelines to help musicians cultivate artistic vision, objectivity, freedom, quiet awareness, and self-compassion, both on- and offstage in order to become more resilient performers. Contrary to modern culture's embrace of busyness and divided attention, Cornett's contemplative techniques provide greater space for artistic self-expression and satisfaction. With the aid of a companion website that includes audio files and downloadable templates, The Mindful Musician provides a method to promote attentional focus, self-assessment, emotional awareness, and creativity. The first of its kind to combine mindfulness practices with research in cognitive and sport psychology, this book helps musicians explore the roots of anxiety and other challenges related to performance, all through the deliberate focus of awareness.

Everything in its Right Place identifies the secret to Radiohead's immense commercial and critical success in the band's ability to navigate a sweet spot between expectation and surprise. The author uses tools from musical perception, semiotics, and music theory to demonstrate this reconciliation of extremes, and analyzes musical meaning with lyrics, biographical details, and intertextual relationships.