Filter by

Date


Research Centres Groups

School

Research Areas

Themes

People

Output Type

Download Available

Library Of Congress

Dewey Decimal

98 results

Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Haphazard Pathways: Routes to Higher Popular Music Education and Impact on Curricula. Paper presented at International Society of Music Education World Conference
No abstract available.

Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition. Presented at Invited Guest Lecture, Ithaca College, New York, USA
Invited guest lecture.

Futures in Jazz - Education and Industry (Panel Chair)

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2016, July)
Futures in Jazz - Education and Industry (Panel Chair). Presented at Continental Drift: 50 Years of Jazz from Europe
No abstract available.

Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, September)
Young People and Popular Music Making: Leisure, Education, and Industry. Paper presented at SACI Research Conference
No abstract available.

Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice

Journal Article
Moir, Z., & Medbøe, H. (2015)
Reframing popular music composition as performance-centred practice. Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 8(2), 147-161. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte.8.2.147_1
This article reports on a qualitative study of four undergraduate students specializing in popular music composition, and examines links and overlaps between three related are...

Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, February)
Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers. Presented at Invited Guest Workshop
1 day workshop.

Mesmer EP

Digital Artefact
Moir, Z. (2014)
Mesmer EP
No abstract available.

An Ecology of Music Making: Participation, Pressures, and Progressions

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, September)
An Ecology of Music Making: Participation, Pressures, and Progressions. Presented at Creativities, Musicalities, and Entrepreneurships
No abstract available.

'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2014, April)
'Just Like Clarence' or 'Just Like Jimi': Issues surrounding creativity, originality, and pedagogy in pop and rock improvisation. Paper presented at Improvisation: Educational Perspectives
No abstract available.

Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z., & McLaughlin, S. (2014, March)
Popular Music Pedagogy: Assessment, Evaluation, and Context. Paper presented at International Festival for Artistic Innovation
No abstract available.

Filter by

Date


Research Centres Groups

School

Research Areas

People

Qualification level

15 results

Music For Life: Improving Access to Music Tuition for Mature Students; The Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Mr Bryden Stillie

Is there a space of performativity which is neither and/or both masculine or feminine?

2023 - date
Mx Ashley Stein | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

Mindful Musicking

2023 - date
Neil Mackenzie | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

An Exploration of Live Sound Engineering in Edinburgh

2023 - date
Jamie McLardy | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Freedom from Work: Unpaid Labor and Unearned Hierarchies Within Art and Music

2022 - date
Elizabeth Veldon | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim

Formal Music Curricula, Identity Formation and Group Consciousness in Primary and Secondary School Students

2022 - date
Agnese Di Domenico | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Anne Che

Creative autonomy in the jazz framework: An exploration of autonomy and artistic license as it is applied to performance, improvisation and composition in the jazz context

2021 - date
Kyle Irwin | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Zack Moir

Educator objectives & attitudes towards undergraduate popular music education curricula in the U.K.

2021 - date
Andrew Harvey | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Mr Bryden Stillie

e(co): a study of shared creative activity in environment

2021 - date
Harry Docherty | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

SQA Music Qualifications as Preperation for Music Degrees: An Investigation

2020 - date
Rebekah Donn | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Mr Bryden Stillie

Filter by

Date


Research Centres Groups

School

Research Areas

Themes

People

7 results

Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

26 June 2019
Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education

3 April 2019
Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other mem...

University Academics and Students Engage in Live Improvisation Over Networks at Prestigious International Conference

2 April 2019
Can a network performance be defined, planned and executed in 90 minutes? Teams of attendees and remote performers at the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop in Prague were tasked with creatin...

Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey

28 January 2019
Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the...

Edinburgh Napier academic uses personal experience of living with diabetes to inspire composition

3 July 2018
An Edinburgh Napier academic is using his personal experience of living with diabetes to fuel his passion for making music. Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in popular music at the University, was diagnosed wit...

World First for Remote Transatlantic Real-Time Album Recording

19 September 2017
The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - in real-time. In what is believed to be a world first, Dr Paul Ferg...

Lecturer in Music is Editor of Recently 'Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education'

24 January 2017
Dr Zack Moir from music is one of the editors of the recently published 'Routledge Research Handbook of Popular Music Education', which is a new edited volume containing contributions from a wide rang...