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Promoting the musical engagement of autistic children in the early years through a program of parental support: an ecological research study
Get PDFSome autistic children display an intuitive capacity to reproduce and restyle the musical stimuli that they encounter in their environments. Music also offers a safe space for the development of social competencies and, across the spectrum, musical interventions are regarded as an effective way of promoting engagement with others. Yet, there is a lack of empirically researched music programs for parents and carers of children with autism. In this study, 11 families with autistic children incorporated music making into everyday life, supported by researcher-practitioners and framed by resources outlining musical activities based on the Sounds of Intent in the Early Years framework. Assessment of video data and interviews revealed that the new resources were flexible enough to be adapted to each child and they helped parents to build confidence to engage with their children musically. It was found that children had an increased interest and engagement in music as well as in joint play, which impacted positively on their musical and social development. The interpersonal music spaces created by the parents provided opportunities for unlocking expressiveness and interactive behavior, which in turn supported verbal development, emotional regulation and social interaction. These findings have implications for arts-in-health research and highlight the potentially crucial role of parents as mentors for their child’s musical development. The study further demonstrates that specialist musical training is not a requirement to develop parent–child engagement in music making at home
Limbering up for practice and performance
No full textA guide for performers to help make sure they're physically ready to practice and perform. Developed as a collaboration between the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine and Healthy Conservatoires. Featuring: Sarah Upjohn, Physiotherapist
Specialist support for performers: optician
No full textLearn how an optician can help performers make sure they are keeping their vision in optimal condition. Featuring: Sheryl Doe, Optician
Sound heritage: making music matter in historic houses
Get PDFSound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues. It examines how music materials can be used to create narratives about past inhabitants and their surroundings - including aspects of social and cultural life beyond the activity of music making itself - and explores how music as sound, material, and practice can be more consistently and engagingly integrated into the curation and interpretation of historic houses.
The volume is structured around a selection of thematic chapters and a series of shorter case studies, each focusing on a specific house, object or project. Key themes include:
Different types of historic house, including the case of the composer or musician house; what can be learned from museums and galleries about the use of sound and music and what may not transfer to the historic house setting;
Musical instruments as part of a wider collection; questions of restoration and public use; and the demands of particular collection types such as sheet music;
Musical objects and pieces of music as storytelling components, and the use of music to affectively colour narratives or experiences.
This is a pioneering study that will appeal to all those interested in the intersection between Music and Museum and Heritage Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers of Music History, Popular Music, Performance Studies and Material Culture
Noise induced hearing loss for performers
No full textA guide to noise induced hearing loss for performing artists, and how to avoid it. Developed as a collaboration between the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine and Healthy Conservatoires
Braiding time: in search of sounds from within
Get PDFThis commentary reflects upon my search for sounds that emerge from within materials, rather than those imposed by structures from without. Through a discussion of the portfolio of works, I address how this led me to a renewed understanding of musical form. I document how an initial exploration of proportional structures became increasingly disrupted by the vitality of sound materials, and how my process evolved in recognition of this. Over time, a particular way of thinking about my compositional practice came into view. Braiding is conceived of as both a creative method and a way of thinking about form - a means of binding my craft with and within the flows of materials, and of creating sonic interdependencies in a work. My approach draws widely on both composers and theorists, including Eliane Radigue's treatment of time, James Tenney's harmonic trees, Tim Ingold's ecological anthropology and Siegfried Zielinski's medialities. In the first phase of research, a gradual drifting away from metered time is discussed through theories of rhythmic entrainment. Secondly, pure-ratio tuning systems are discussed as a means of creating frequential relationships. Lastly, the grain, spectrality and atmospherics of sound media are discussed in relation to theories of mediation
Baseball for the blind
No full textMusic for the film 'Baseball for the Blind' (2021) directed by Emanuele Costantini
Specialist support for performers: podiatrist
No full textLearn how a podiatrist can tailor footcare to the specific challenges performers face. Featuring: Maire Murphy, Podiatrist
Singing safely in a pandemic
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Gregson FKA, Watson NA, Orton CM, Haddrell AE, McCarthy LP, Finnie TJR, Gent N, Donaldson GC, Shah PL, Calder JD, Bzdek BR, Costello D, and Reid JP (2021), Comparing aerosol concentrations and particle size distributions generated by singing, speaking and breathing, Aerosol Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2021.1883544
Recovering our humanity - what’s love (and music) got to do with it?
No full textAbstract for 'Authentic Connection: Music, Spirituality, and Wellbeing': This volume focuses on the ways in which mutual musical engagement might play a role in creating healthful, life-giving experiences. Scholarly chapters and reflective interludes illustrate how people use music to forge authentic spiritual and emotional connections with others, including in times of physical isolation and political unrest. Chapters and interludes address topics such as relationship building, community, wellbeing, therapy, education, and ecology. Each describes various ways in which individuals connect authentically with themselves, others, the music they make, and the physical and spiritual world around them. Many authors address current global crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, nationalism, environmental injustice, and associated climate catastrophes. Authors articulate various qualities of authentic human connections, and discuss various ways in which music might be poised to facilitate emotional and spiritual connections in some of the most challenging and physically isolating times