The Lost Chord
The Lost Chord is a nice page about the famous Victorian song. All the words are there, along with some truly atrocious pictures from the period to illustrate the song.…
Latest research in music perception & cognition
If there’s one area of music research that really grabs me, it’s music perception & cognition. With astonishing speed, considering it only took place at the end of August, the…
Musicality: not such a big question after all?
It’s very common in the dance education world to denigrate the word ‘musicality’, because it’s a woolly term. Or people look at you in a knowing way and say ‘What…
‘Social loss’, dance notation and Josephine Baker
What do Glaser & Strauss’s grounded theory study The Social Loss of Dying Patients, dance notation and Josephine Baker have in common? Well, I’m making a few conceptual leaps here,…
Change deafness, multi-tasking and ballet teaching
I was talking to a friend recently about scams and conmen. Our conclusion was that anyone who says ‘it would never happen to me’ is deluding themselves. The thing with…
Musicking – the rough guide
What a fantastic resource this is: a truly whistle-stop guide from the Victoria Sings programme to everything that is current and trending in the world of interdisciplinary music studies (not…