The Mind Behind the Musical Ear: How Children Develop Musical IntelligenceIn The Mind behind the Musical Ear, Jeanne Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of original rhythm notations, she follows eight-year-old Jeff as he reconstructs and invents descriptions of simple melodies. In a running commentary on Jeff's discoveries and a series of dialogues between herself and two imaginary college students who take different approaches to music, Bamberger reflects on the thinking strategies that guide Jeff at various moments in his musical development. |
Contents
The Players | 1 |
The Themes | 7 |
PARTI RHYTHM | 19 |
Mot | 31 |
Musical and Developmental | 45 |
Counting and the Metric Hierarchy | 57 |
Convention Innovation and Multiple Hearings | 68 |
Building Hot Cross Buns with the Montessori Bells | 127 |
Making Instructions for Playing Hot Cross Buns | 153 |
Jeffs Figural Construction and Notation for Twinkle | 177 |
Constructive Disequilibrium | 198 |
Moving toward a Formal Representation of Twinkle | 226 |
Met and Mots Reflections on Jeffs Story | 248 |
Educational Implications | 269 |
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