Research Catalog

Title

Musical extrapolations : creative processes involved while music is being listened to and composed / Sebastian Schmidt.

Author

Schmidt, Sebastian, 1977-

Publication

• Weisbaden : Springer VS, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

348 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Subject

• Music > Psychological aspects
• Cognitive learning theory
• Critical thinking

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-344).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Figures (starting p. 15) -- Introduction (starting p. 19) -- Part I Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Cognitive Sciences in Terms of Music -- 1. Perspectives of Developmental Psychology: Between Pre-disposed Structures and Musical Experience (starting p. 27) -- 1.1. Ontogeny of Musical Abilities during the Prenatal Period (starting p. 27) -- 1.1.1. The Fetal Sound Environment (starting p. 27) -- 1.1.2. Fetal Auditory Competencies (starting p. 30) -- 1.1.3. Fetal Auditory Learning and Memory Structures (starting p. 33) -- 1.2. Infants' Auditory Sensitivity Related to Acoustical Parameters of Music -- 1.2.1. Auditory Threshold Sensitivity (starting p. 35) -- 1.2.2. Auditory Sensitivity for Frequency, Pitch and Timbre Discrimination (starting p. 40) -- 1.3. Perspectives of Infants General Musical Organization (starting p. 46) -- 1.3.1. Auditory Grouping and Segregation Processes (starting p. 47) -- 1.3.2. Perception of Time and Rhythmical Structures -- a Sensorimotor Perspective (starting p. 49) -- 1.3.3. Processing of 'Musical' Sequences (starting p. 55) -- 1.4. The Evolving Musical-Artistic Competence From Infancy to Adulthood (starting p. 57) -- 1.4.1. Child Development in a Social-Cultural Environment -- the perspective of Piaget and Neo-Piagetian (starting p. 58) -- 1.4.2. Three Models of Musical-Artistic Development (starting p. 64) -- 1.4.2.1. Hargreaves 'Five Age-Related Phases in Musical-Artistic Development' (starting p. 65) -- 1.4.2.2. Swanwick and Tillman's Model of 'Developmental Spiral' (starting p. 69) -- 1.4.2.3. Schubert and McPherson's Model of Emotion Perception in Music (starting p. 72) -- 1.4.2.4. Conclusion -- Relationships and Distinctions Amongst the Three Theories (starting p. 77) -- 1.5. Summary (starting p. 80) -- 2. Perspectives on Creativity in General and while Music is being Listened to and Composed (starting p. 85) -- 2.1. Perspectives on Creativity in General (starting p. 85) -- 2.1.1. Cognition and Creativity (starting p. 85) -- 2.1.2. Developmental and Social Influences on Creativity (starting p. 90) -- 2.1.3. Creativity in Dependence on Personality, Motivation, and Emotion (starting p. 96) -- 2.2. Musical Creativity/Creative Thinking in Sound (starting p. 111) -- 2.3. Developmental Aspects of Musical Creativity/Creative Thinking in Sound (starting p. 118) -- 2.3.1. Definitions of Musical Creativity in the Course of Development (starting p. 118) -- 2.3.2. Perspectives to Measure the Potential and its Development within 'the Psychometric Approach' of Musical Creativity (starting p. 121) -- 2.3.3. Conclusions -- Measurement of Musical Creativity/Creative Thinking in Sound/Music and their Development (starting p. 136) -- 2.4. Creativity in Listening to Music (starting p. 140) -- 2.4.1. Listeners as (Creative) Makers of Music (starting p. 140) -- 2.4.2. Various Ways of Listening (to Music) (starting p. 144) -- 2.4.3. Creativity Research in Terms of Listening to Music (starting p. 153) -- 2.4.4. Conclusions (starting p. 160) -- 2.5. Creativity while Composing of Music (starting p. 162) -- 2.5.1. The Role of Imagery and Imagination (starting p. 162) -- 2.5.2. Composing Music -- A Creative Problem-Solving Perspective (starting p. 168) -- 2.5.2.1. Between Ill-defined Problems and Well-structured Solutions (starting p. 169) -- 2.5.2.2. Influences while Composing of Music (starting p. 173) -- 2.5.2.3. Models describing Creative Problem-Solving in Terms of Composing Music (starting p. 180) -- 2.6. Summary (starting p. 191) -- Part II Musical Extrapolations -- Towards a Model of Creativity in Music -- 3. At the Very Heart (of Music) (starting p. 209) -- 4. The Model of Musical Extrapolations -- Basic Factors and their Inter-dependencies (starting p. 223) -- 4.1. Intrinsic Activity and Motivation (starting p. 223) -- 4.2. Pre-disposed and Experience-based Structures (starting p. 228) -- 4.2.1. Pre-disposed (starting p. 228) -- 4.2.2. Experience-based (starting p. 232) -- 4.3. Environmental Pressure (starting p. 239) -- 4.4. At the Very Heart of New Musical Extrapolations (starting p. 247) -- 4.4.1. Problem-Construction and Problem-Finding (starting p. 249) -- 4.4.2. Idea-Generation (starting p. 254) -- 4.4.3. Evaluation (starting p. 264) -- 4.5. Summary (starting p. 270) -- 5. Perspectives of Investigation Based on the Outlind Model of Musical Extrapolations (starting p. 289) -- References (starting p. 295) -- Appendices (starting p. 345)

ISBN

• 3658111240
• 9783658111243

OCLC

• 915120208
• SCSB-10218355

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library