Action knowledge and symbolic knowledge: The computer as mediator
in Discovering the Musical Mind
October 2013; p ublished online January 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 7772 words.
This chapter addresses a small set of troublesome but pervasive educational issues that become surprisingly illuminated as we look at the possible roles for computer technology in...
Adolescent music is not problematic
in The Child as Musician
September 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 6885 words.
This chapter discusses the ways that young people appropriate music for healthy and unhealthy purposes. The chapter begins with an examination of common assumptions about how music...
Analyzing musical prodigiousness using Gagné’s Integrative Model of Talent Development
in Musical Prodigies
September 2016; p ublished online January 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 67240 words.
We survey three interlocking talent development models: the Differentiating Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT), the Developmental Model for Natural Abilities (DMNA), and their merging...
André Mathieu (1929–1968)
in Musical Prodigies
September 2016; p ublished online January 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 10211 words.
This chapter discusses the case of the Canadian pianist and composer André Mathieu (1929–1968), who began his career as a musical prodigy at the age of four. Mathieu grew up in a family of...
Audience Response and Expressive Pitch Inflections in a Live Recording of Legendary Singer Kesar Bai Kerkar
in Expressiveness in music performance
July 2014; p ublished online September 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Social Psychology. 8658 words.
This chapter examines several “snapshots” from a recording by the legendary singer Kesar Bai Kerkar (1892–1977), in which the customary audience response to a concert of classical...
Auditory icons, earcons, and displays: Information and expression through sound
in The Psychology of Music in Multimedia
June 2013; p ublished online September 2013 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Social Psychology. 12927 words.
Although it is often claimed that we have become a primarily visual-based society, the role of sound and music in communicating and augmenting information transmission has become...
The brain’s rapid encoding of rule-governed domains of knowledge
in Musical Prodigies
September 2016; p ublished online January 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 7172 words.
Advances in understandings that the brain’s cerebellum and cerebral cortex collaborate in the development and ongoing operation of working memory offer new insights on how deliberate...
Brains and the Evolution of <i>Homo sapiens</i>
in Music, evolution, and the harmony of souls
February 2017; p ublished online March 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Psychology. 27165 words.
To examine ideas as to how and why humans evolved (and retained) music and language as interrelated but distinct communication streams, this chapter sets out the basic tenets of modern...
Building gifts into musical talents
in The Child as Musician
September 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 11914 words.
This chapter unravels issues surrounding the nature–nurture debate and how this impacts on conceptions of remarkable achievement in music. It describes a framework that distinguishes...
Building performance confidence
in The Child as Musician
September 2015; p ublished online November 2015 .
Chapter. Subjects: Music Theory and Analysis; Developmental Psychology. 9664 words.
Young developing musicians are often exposed to a variety of performance experiences, from early informal experiences performing in front of family members, to performing with their school...
