ROGER Pierce – författare

Alexandra Pierce singles out elements of music such as melody, meter, and phrase, and investigates the defining quality of each through movement. Although simple, these exercises engage the listening attention in complex ways and can be integrated into a musician's daily practice. Practicing movements that accurately reflect a musical element can improve technique and are audible in performance. They become part of your technical command. Short narratives that illustrate how performance practice problems can be approached and solved are scattered throughout the book. A video companion to Deepening Musical Performance through Movement can be found at the author's website, alexandrapierce.net/deepening.

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Packed with features to promote learning this text is ideal for use on an introductory methods course or for readers carrying out their own research project.

It presents:

- an overview of the philosophy and principles of research

- qualitative and quantitative research methods and research design

- a critical review of selected methods

- methods of gathering information, such as interviews and focus groups, and discusses issues associated with ensuring quality of information

- appropriate methods for analysing and interpreting data, and covers the process of communicating research.

The inclusion of chapter objectives, regular summaries, questions for discussion and tasks and assignments, makes this the must-have text for researching politics.