This lively book provides practitioners, students and other professionals with practical guidance on how to include musical activity in the care and education of children aged from birth to five years.

Suitable for student musicians, practising musicians, and instrumental and vocal teachers, this book aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform. It also aims to teach them how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance.

Now in an updated 2nd edition, Musicology: The Key Concepts is a handy A-Z reference guide to the terms and concepts associated with contemporary musicology.