Based on his academic background in multicultural music education and ethnomusicology, Huib Schippers developed the Seven-Continuum Transmission Model (SCTM) 2004 to describe teaching situations of world music. The current study adopted SCTM as a framework investigate Chinese teachers’ perceptions context issues (tradition, authenticity, context) transmission modes (analytic/holistic, notation ...

Like many other rhythmic terms, ' free rhythm' is widely enough used to be recognized as part of the vocabulary of musicology, without ever having been convincingly studied or even denned. In general, this term and its various synonyms refer to music without metrical organization. ' Free rhythm' is an important musical phenomenon which has been largely neglected by the field of ethnomusicology....

In this commentary on Hofmann et al. (2021), the notion of ethnomusicology and some its underlying biases are questioned reflected in light applying FAIR data principles to musicological research from outside a Western canon musical practices.

What would contemporary music scholarship look like if it was no longer imprinted with the disciplinary assumptions, boundaries and divisions inherited from the last century? This article proposes that a generative model for future music studies would take the form of a relational musicology. The model is drawn from the author’s work; but signs of an incipient relational musicology are found sc...