Writing about film music has been around since the start of cinema, but there is still much to
be learned. Previous research has been limited by a lack of understanding and not fully …

This Commentary contextualises and places within a critical framework, three books on Film
Music written by myself.(1) The books, written between 2013 and 2015, are targeted toward …

This paper considers the purpose, values and principles underpinning higher music
education (HME) as one of the performing arts in a context of turbulent global change …

Since Vulliamy and Lee's (1976) Pop Music in School, a sizeable literature on the
educational aspects of popular music has developed. Generally this literature falls into a …

Success, for the majority of performing arts majors, is defined as a performance career; and
yet very few graduates achieve this goal. This paper draws on earlier research into the …

Abstract The message of Huey Lewis and the News' song “Hip to be Square” resonates
through the career decisions facing professional musicians who enter the formal music …

This book addresses the need to rethink the concept and enactment of professionalism in
music, and how such concepts underpin professional higher music education. There is an …

Due to technological innovations, the music industries have become more accessible for
outsiders over the past two decades. Yet, over the same period we have seen an increasing …

2 Liisamaija Hautsalo many, and since the 2010s an average of 12 to 27 operas have been
composed each year; it is safe to conclude that opera in Finland is alive and well. 1 The …

This article seeks to reignite debate about the purpose of a university music education.
Taking inspiration from Randall Thompson's 1935 investigation of the role of music …