It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, this study attempts to make a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism.

Talking about music psychology, this work examines how music can be used to communicate and the biological, cognitive, social, and cultural processes that underlie such communication. Looking at all aspects of communication, it is suitable for those who are involved in music cognition, music education, and communication studies.

This text builds on the foundations of "Music since the First World War" (first published 1977, revised edition 1988). It updates and reshapes the original text and places it in the wider context of 20th-century serious music before 1918 and after 1975.

This book explores the social and the cultural contexts in which creativity in music occurs. It considers what constitutes creativity, taking a cross cultural view of music, and investigating creative processes far beyond just the classical music genre - including electronic media, popular music, and improvised music.

Offers performers, teachers, and researchers practical guidance for enhancing performance and managing the stress that typically accompanies performance situations. Drawing together the findings of pioneering initiatives from across the arts and sciences, this book is useful for those involved in music research, education, and performance.

Music can have a profound influence on our own developing sense of identity. This book explores the powerful effect that music can have as we develop our sense of identity, from adolescence through to adulthood. Bringing together leading experts from psychology and music, it is useful for music psychologists and developmental psychologists.

Musical imagination and creativity are amongst the most abstract and complex aspects of musical behaviour. This book is a wide ranging, multidisciplinary review of the latest theory and research on musical creativity, performance and perception by some of the most eminent scholars in their respective disciplines.

My Antonia took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists while at the same time celebrating the provinces. It depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie, through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit.