ABSTRACT
Although a significant number of music educators internationally have had a fairly difficult run in the late stages of the twentieth century and the early years of this new one due to decreasing support for music in schools, many have bravely attempted to find ways to offer music programmes in which music's wonderful diversity can be introduced. This may involve musical traditions around the globe, various forms of popular and art music as well as more recent forms of musical experimentalism. This volume is intended to help those interested in sharing the excitement and joy of making music with sounds as part of this broad curriculum. Although one might consider sound-based music to be of fairly marginal importance, the fact is that it is rather ubiquitous in today's world. It can be found in a variety of audio only and audio-visual forms including films, advertisements, computer games and a wide variety of compositional approaches.
