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Music and well-being
(Vaal Triangle Faculty, North-West University, 2014)
This paper scrutinizes how human beings relate to the wider cosmos in the
thinking of the European Middle Ages. The re-invention of the ‘spiritual’ might liberate
Western culture from Cartesian elements within Western ...
Ubuomba: Negotiating indigenisation of liturgical music in the Catholic Church in Zambia
(2014)
In the early 1950s the Vatican accepted the translation of Catholic hymnals into local Zambian languages and the incorporation of indigenous musical instruments into the liturgical music. This development inspired a group ...
The sweet peace of perfect assurance: On well-being in the hymns texts of Fanny Crosby
(2014)
Well-being is often described as a state of happiness or satisfaction with life, but it is so much more. The influence of religious involvement on a positive sense of well-being of the individual has been well documented. ...
'Through music and into music', through music and into well-being: Dalcroze eurhythmics as music therapy
(2014)
There is a longstanding relationship between music therapy and Dalcroze
Eurhythmics, an approach to music education that had its beginnings in the reform
pedagogy movement of the European fin de siècle. Émile Jaques-Dalcroze ...
Music, personhood, and eudaimonia: Implications for educative and ethical music education
(2014)
This paper proposes that educative and ethical music making and teaching,
which is based on a praxial philosophy of music education (Elliott and Silverman, 2014),
can be carried out in a variety of ways that create places ...
Personal, musical and social benefits of singing in a community ensemble: Three case studies in Melbourne (Australia)
(2014)
Australia has a diverse, multilayered society that reflects its rich musical life. There are
many community choirs formed by various cultural and linguistically diverse groups. This
article is part of an ongoing project, ...
Understanding music’s therapeutic efficacy: Implications for music education
(2014)
In the current era of electronic domination of human experience, be it via cell phone
and/or computer addiction, or the ubiquitous television, actual participation in musicmaking
is less and less common for the average ...