University of Malaya Book Series on Research in Musicology is a collection of peer-reviewed papers by local and international scholars. This book aims to disseminate current research to both academicians and tertiary music students. Articles ranging from historical musicology, music technology, performance practice, music education, composition, ethnomusicology, music psychology and so forth grace the pages of our book series. In this series, our contributors are Gisa Jahnichen, Loo Fung Ying, Mohd Nasir Hashim, Loo Fung Chiat, Seow Qiao Yiun, Shahanum Mohd. Shah, Nadia Widyawati Madzhi, and...

Traditions, Change and Applied Study in Music is a collective work of six essays on current researches at University of Malaya and Universiti Putra Malaysia. These essays comprise of an ethnographic study of music from Belarus as an organic product prior to impact from the globalised phenomenon; a glance through an in-depth transcription process of the Malay syair, a type of traditional Malay poetry that is presented in a song; an analytical study on the Chinese huangmei diao transformation as a Malaysian musical production; impacts of political and economical factors in jazz music; and an...