Browsing Music (Peer-reviewed publications) by Author "Varvarigou, Maria"
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Benefits experienced by older people in group music-making activities
Varvarigou, Maria; Creech, Andrea; Hallam, Sarah; McQueen, Hilary (Intellect, 2012-08-23)This article focuses on the reported benefits of participation in musical activities identified by people over the age of fifty, who participated in the Music for Life Project. The participants engaged in weekly musical ... -
Bringing different generations together in music-making – an Intergenerational Music Project in East London
Varvarigou, Maria; Creech, Andrea; Hallam, Susan; McQueen, Hilary (Intellect, 2011-12-09)This article describes an intergenerational music project that took place as part of a bigger project, entitled the Music for Life Project that explored the social and emotional benefits of music participation for people ... -
Collaborative playful experimentation in Higher Education: a group ear playing study
Varvarigou, Maria (Sage Publications, 2016-08)Exploring how western classical musicians could develop their aural, improvisatory and creative musicianship skills through playing by ear is an area that has recently received noteworthy attention within Higher Education. ... -
Flow, play, feel and creativity: some of the potential outcomes of playing by ear from a recording
Varvarigou, Maria; Green, Lucy (GIA Publications Inc, 2017)Playing by ear from a recording is, in the history of human music-making, a relatively new activity, stemming as it does from only the last one hundred years or so, since the invention of audio recording and play-back ... -
Nurturing collaborative creativity through group playing by ear from recordings in formal music education
Varvarigou, Maria (Springer Nature, 2019-07-12)This chapter discusses research on informal learning (Green in How popular musicians learn. Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot, 2002) with a particular focus on playing by ear from recordings in groups and how it contributes ... -
Pedagogy and professional development- research report for ETHNO
Creech, Andrea; Varvarigou, Maria; Lorenzino, Lisa; Čorić, Ana (Jeunesses Musicales International, 2022-06-07)The aim of the pedagogy and professional development research was to document local, national and global understandings of Ethno pedagogy, and to describe and theorize its processes in action, including the ways it was ...