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Music and Routine

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In this chapter, we present the musical practice session as a creative process that reveals insights about the function of routines and experimentation. This chapter offers an extended discussion of specific musical practices as generative forms of inquiry that can be used to extend critical approaches to pedagogy.

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McRae, C., Huber, A. (2017). Music and Routine. In: Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning. Creativity, Education and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54561-5_4

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