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Christopher Small (Palmerston North, New Zealand, 17 March 1927 – 7 September 2011) was a musician, educator, lecturer, and author of a number of influential books and articles in the fields of musicology, sociomusicology and ethnomusicology. He is popular for coining the term musicking with which he wanted to highlight that music is a ''process'' (verb) and not an ''object'' (noun.) ==Biography== Christopher Small (born Christopher Neville Charles Small) was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand to a dentist and former schoolteacher, and was the youngest of three children. His early school education took place at the Terrace End and Russell Street Primary Schools (1932–39), Palmerston North Boys' High School (1940–1) and Wanganui Collegiate School (1942–44). Between the years 1945 and 1952 he attended Otago University and then Victoria University College (now known as Victoria University of Wellington). He taught at Horowhenua College (at the same time working at Morrow Productions Ltd making educational animated films) in 1953-8, and at Waihi College in 1959–60. In 1960 he was awarded a New Zealand Government Bursary and in 1961 he spent a year travelling in the UK, before studying composition in London with Priaulx Rainier, where he also had contact with Bernard Rands, Luigi Nono and Witold Lutoslawski. After his studies he stayed in England, where he taught a schools, including Anstey College of Education in Birmingham. He became Senior Lecturer in Music at Ealing College of Higher Education in London (1971–86) and he also taught at Dartington College of Arts in 1979. Between 1977 and 1986 he was Adjunct Professor of the History of Music at Syracuse University London Centre, and a Tutor in Music to the summer school of the BEd course of Sussex University between 1981–4.〔 He retired from teaching in 1986 and moved to Sitges, Spain, where he lived with his partner Neville Braithwaite (a Jamaican-born dancer, singer, and youth worker) whom he married in 2006. During his time in Spain, Small conducted Catalan choirs and was visited regularly by people from both Europe and the USA, who admired his work. In the USA his ideas have been supported by prominent musicologists such as Charles Keil, Robert Walser, Susan McClary and The Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau.〔 Neville died in 2006, and Small is survived by his sister, Rosemary.〔 During his lifetime he published a number of books of his own, and was a contributor in numerous articles in journals such as Music in Education, Tempo, The Musical Times, Music and Letters, and Musical America. He lectured in many educational institutions in the UK, Norway, and USA, contributed with papers to organisations such as the Composers' Guild of Great Britain (1984 – now known as the ''British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors''), the Association of Improvising Musicians (1985), Music Educators National Conference (Hartford CT 1985 and Washington DC 1989 – now known as the ''National Association for Music Education'') and the Society for Ethnomusicology (Cambridge MA 1988). Small took part in the series "Sounds Different", broadcast by BBC-TV2 (July 1982), and wrote "This Is Who We Are", a three-programme broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (March 1988) about Afro-American music.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Small」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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