Music and the mind : essays in honour of John Sloboda / edited by Irène Deliège, Jane W. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deliège, Irène.

Davidson, Jane W.

Sloboda, John A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sloboda, John A.

Music--Psychological aspects.

Music.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The Musical Mind, published in 1985, was written by the relatively unknown John Sloboda. It made ground-breaking inroads in raising crucial questions relating to music's status as a form of human expression and has become the seminal text in the field of music psychology. The scope of that book was impressive: from music perception to production, embracing topics as diverse as music's origin and the circumstances that encourage its skill acquisition. Musical structure, grouping, and perceptual processing, including memory, were key areas where John Sloboda had made early empirical investigations. Discussion of emotional responses and creative processes were far more inductively written, based on his own personal experiences. The Musical Mind laid a research agenda in asking those crucial 'how' and 'why' questions that have since occupied a growing body of researchers from all over the world.

Following a quarter of a century after that seminal work, Music and the Mind celebrates the life and work of John Sloboda whilst taking stock of where the field of music psychology stands 25 years after The Musical Mind first appeared. It reviews key areas of current research in the field, written by world-leading authors, each making a significant and original academic contribution. Offering a timely review of the field of music psychology in the 21st Century, the contributors to Music and the Mind also reflect on how the field has been significantly stimulated by the influential work of John Sloboda. This book is fascinating reading for students and researchers in music psychology and musicology, as well as music professionals. Book jacket.

Contents:

Music, linguistics, and cognition / Michel Imberty

What are the important questions? : A reflection / Eric F. Clarke

Developing a young musician's growth mindset : the role of motivation, self-theories, and resiliency / Susan A. O'Neill

Negotiating music in the real world : development, motivation, process, and effect / Alexandra Lamont

Musical participation : expectations, experiences, and outcomes / Jane W. Davidson

How do strong experiences with music relate to experiences in everyday listening to music? / Alf Gabrielsson

Music and emotion : seven questions, seven answers / Patrik N. Juslin

Salience of melodic tones in short-term memory : dependence on phrasing, metre, duration, register, and tonal hierarchy / Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte, and Roberto Caterina

Sloboda and Parker's recall paradigm for melodic memory : a new, computational perspective / Daniel Müllensiefen and Geraint A. Wiggins

Musical encounters of the temporary kind / Frederick A. Seddon

Routes to adolescent musical expertise / Antonia Ivaldi

The musical child prodigy (wunderkind) in music history : a historiometric analysis / Reinhard Kopiez

Another exceptional musical memory : evidence from a savant of how atonal music is processed in cognition / Adam Ockelford

Off the record : performance, history, and musical logic / Nicholas Cook

Expressive variants in the opening Robert Schumann's Arlequin (from Carnaval, op. 9) : 54 pianists' interpretations of a metrical ambiguity / Andreas C. Lehmann

Quantifying the beat-inducing properties of conductors' temporal gestures, and conductor-musician synchronization / Geoff Luck

Performance cues in singing : evidence from practice and recall / Jane Ginsborg and Roger Chaffin

Emotions in motion : transforming conflict and music / Arild Bergh

The role of music in the integration of cultural minorities / Richard Parncutt and Angelika Dorfer

Postlude : John Sloboda in conversation with Irène Deliège.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199581566

0199581568

OCLC:

681503782

Publisher Number:

99943452890