Musical Prodigies

Herausgeber: McPherson, Gary E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This books breaks new ground in presenting the first scientific exploration on the topic of musical prodigies. It brings together research from a range of disciplines, including psychology, neurobiology, and genetics, to provide a thorough exploration of prodigious talent

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1656g
• ISBN-13: 9780199685851
• ISBN-10: 0199685851
• Artikelnr.: 47866685

Autorenporträt

Gary E. McPherson studied music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before completing a master of music education at Indiana University, a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Licentiate and Fellowship in trumpet performance through Trinity College, London. He is the Ormond Professor and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne, and previously held a position as the Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman endowed chair in music education at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has served as National President of the Australian Society for Music Education and President of the International Society for Music Education. His research interests are broad and his approach interdisciplinary. His most important research examines the acquisition and development of musical competence, and motivation to engage and participate in music from novice to expert levels.

Inhaltsangabe

* Section One: Theoretical Frameworks
* 1: Françoys Gagné and Gary E. McPherson: Music prodigies within the
DMGT/EMTD perspective
* 2: David Henry Feldman: Two Roads Diverged in the Music Wood: A
Co-incidence Approach to the Lives and Careers of Nyiregyhazi and
Menuhin
* 3: Robert Faulkner and Jane W. Davidson: Syzygies, social worlds and
exceptional achievement in music
* 4: Miriam Anna Mosing and Fredrik Ullén: Genetic influences on
musical giftedness, talent and practice
* 5: Reinhard Kopiez and Andreas C. Lehmann: Musicological Reports on
Early 20th-Century Musical Prodigies: The Beginnings of an Objective
Assessment
* 6: Dean Keith Simonton: Early and Late Bloomers among 120 Classical
Composers: Were the Greatest Geniuses also Prodigies?
* 7: Barry Cooper: The Wunderkind Composer
* Section Two: Aspects of Development
* 8: Larry Vandervert: Working Memory in Musical Prodigies: A 10,000
Year-Old Story, One Million Years in the Making
* 9: Larry Vandervert: The collaboration of the cerebellum (rapid
encoding) and the cerebral cortex: A Case Analysis of Tiffany Poon
* 10: Larisa V. Shavinina: On the Cognitive-Developmental Theory of the
Child Prodigy Phenomenon
* 11: Rena Subotnik, Linda Jarvin, Andrew Thomas, and Geesoo Maie Lee:
Transitioning Musical Abilities into Expertise and Beyond: The Role
of Psychosocial Skills in Developing Prodigious Talent
* 12: Jeanne Bamberger: Growing-Up Prodigies: The Midlife Crisis
* 13: Andrew J. Martin: Musical Prodigies and Motivation
* 14: Aine MacNamara, Dave Collins, and Patricia Holmes: Musical
Prodigies: Does Talent Need Trauma?
* 15: Lena Quinto, Paolo Ammirante, Michael H. Connors, and William
Forde Thompson: Prodigies of Music Composition: Cognitive Abilities
and Developmental Antecedents
* 16: Thenille Braun Janzen, William Forde Thompson, and Paolo
Ammirante: Development of timing skills
* 17: Simone Dalla Bella, Jakub Sowi?ski, Nicolas Farrugia, and
Magdalena Berkowska: Igor: a case study of a child drummer prodigy
* 18: Jae Yup Jung and Paul Evans: The career decisions of musical
prodigies
* 19: Freya de Mink and Gary E. McPherson: Musical Prodigies Within the
Virtual Stage of YouTube
* 20: Solange Glasser: Synaesthesia and Child Prodigiousness: The Case
of Olivier Messiaen
* 21: Adam Ockelford: The development and nurture of prodigious musical
talent in blind children with autism and learning difficulties:
identifying and educating potential musical savants
* 22: Laurent Mottron and Lucie Bouvet: Veridical mapping in the
development of autistic musical prodigies
* Section Three: Individual Examples
* 23: Rachel Cowgill: Proofs of genius: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the
construction of musical prodigies in early Georgian London
* 24: Simon P. Keefe: Mozart the Child Performer-Composer: New
Musical-Biographical Perspectives on the Early Years to 1766
* 25: Siân Derry: Beethoven: An Understated Prodigy
* 26: R. Larry Todd: The 'Second Mozart': Mendelssohn and Precocity
Revisited
* 27: Anna E. Kijas: Teresa Carreno: "Such gifts are of God, and ought
not to be prostituted for mere gain"
* 28: Dan Bendrups: A folk song prodigy? Considering the exceptional
musical childhood of Chilean folklorist Margot Loyola
* 29: S. Timothy Maloney: Glenn Gould: Conventional Prodigy,
Unconventional Professional
* 30: Danick Trottier: André Mathieu (1929-1968): The Emblematic Case
of the "Young Canadian Mozart"
* 31: Alex W. Rodriguez: Jack Teagarden's Southwestern Sound: A Musical
Prodigy and His Field
* 32: Gabriel Solis: "Little" Stevie Wonder: Motown Musical Prodigy
* 33: Jacqueline Warwick: "You can't win, child, but you can't get out
of the game": Michael Jackson's transition from child star to
superstar.
* 34: Mike Heffley: Jason Becker: Musicality Begets Musicianship in a
Heavy Metal Guitar Prodigy
* 35: Tyler Bickford: Justin Bieber, YouTube, and New Media Celebrity:
The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online