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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
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 361 pages) : illustrations
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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 hearings of a Beethoven Sonata movement ; Recapitulation and coda.
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.
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ISBN
9780191643859 (electronic bk.)
0191643858 (electronic bk.)
9780199589838
0199589836
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-349) and index.
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