This is the first book to provide a wide assessment of what ptactical benefits this research can bring to the music practitioner. With 25 chapters be writers representing a broad range of perspectives, this volume is able to highlight many of the potential links between music reserach and practice.

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.

This book examines various attempts in the 'West' to manage cultural, linguistic, and religious diversity - focusing on Muslim minorities in predominantly non-Muslim societies. An international panel of contributors provide insight.