Research Catalog

Title

Discovering the musical mind : a view of creativity as learning / by Jeanne Bamberger, Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education, MIT, USA.

Author

Bamberger, Jeanne Shapiro,

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description

x, 361 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Throughout her long and distinguished career, Jeanne Bamberger conducted countless case studies analysing musical development and creativity within the classroom environment. 'Discovering the Musical Mind' draws together these classic studies, and offers the chance to revisit and reconsider some of the conclusions she drew at the time.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Developmental psychology
• Educational psychology
• Music > Instruction and study
• Music > Psychological aspects
• Musical ability in children
• Musical ability
• Musical perception in children
• Musical perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-349) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Beginnings. Introduction : where do our questions come from? Where do our answers go? ; The first invented notations : designing the class piece ; Children's drawings of simple rhythms : a typology of children's invented notations ; The typology revisited -- Developing the musical mind. Introduction : what develops in music development? ; Restructuring conceptual intuitions through invented notations : from path making to map making ; Changing musical perception through reflective conversation ; Cognitive issues in the development of musically gifted children ; Developing musical structures : going beyond the simples -- Designing educational environments. Introduction : designing educational environments ; Developing a musical ear : a new experiment ; Action knowledge and symbolic knowledge : the computer as mediator ; The collaborative invention of meaning : a short history of evolving ideas ; Noting time : the Math, Music, and Drumming Project -- Computer as sandbox. Turning music theory on its ear : Do we hear what we see? Do we see what we say? ; The development of intuitive musical understanding : a natural experiment ; Music as embodied mathematics : a study of a mutually informing affinity -- Summing up. Engaging complexity : three hearing of a Beethoven Sonata movement ; Recapitulation and coda.

ISBN

• 9780199589838 (pbk.)
• 0199589836 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library