And, Prof. Lee Chu Keong (Nanyang Technological University) shares out a graduated course in School of Communication & Information called Music Libraries. This is where Prof. Lee picked up and shares the course with Swanwick’s (1994) Model of Musical Knowing. In the model, musical knowing consists of four layers or strands. Although the layers are typically woven together, they can be separated out for the purpose of analysis.

1. Figure 1. Swanwick’s(1994) Model of Musical Knowledge Second Hand Knowledge First Hand Knowledge Swanwick, K. (1994). Musical knowledge: Intuition, analysis and music education. London: Routledge.