Richard Colwell (ed.)

Menc Handbook of Musical Cognition and Development

Herausgeber: Colwell, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

he importance of cognition in teaching, learning, and research in music education has been championed by individuals in the arts, led by Elliot Eisner of Stanford University and by psychologists such as Howard Gardner of Harvard University and Robert Sternberg of Yale. A stellar line up of international authors has been assembled to provide in a single volume the latest theoretical and practical techniques that explain meaning and understanding in music. Sponsored by the National Association of Music Education (MENC), this book provides the most thorough coverage to date of such topics as: * The development of skills in music performance * Research on communicating music expressiveness * The neurobiology of music * The cognitive constraints in the listening process * Music and medicine as applied to neuroscience This collection will prove essential for students and scholars of music education and psychology of music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780195189230
• ISBN-10: 019518923X
• Artikelnr.: 22131035

Autorenporträt

Richard Colwell is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the University of Illinois and Adjunct Professor of Music Education at the University of Michigan. He is the founding editor of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Wilfried Gruhn
University of Freiburg
and Frances Rauscher
University of Wisconsin
Oshkosh: The Neurobiology of Music Cognition and Learning * 2: William Forde Thompson
York University
Toronto
and E. Glenn Schellenberg
University of Toronto at Mississauga: Cognitive Constraints on Music Listening * 3: Heiner Gembris
University of Paderborn
Germany: The Development of Musical Abilities * 4: Bruce Torff
Hofstra University: A Comparative Review of Human Abilitiy Theory: Context
Structure
and Development * 5: Reinhard Kopiez
University of Hannover
Germany: Making Music and Making Sense Through Music: Expressive Performance and Communication * 6: Andreas C. Lehmann
Hochschule für Musik
Würzburg
Germany
and Jane W. Davidson
University of Sheffield: Taking an Acquired Skills Perspective on Music Performance * 7: John W. Flohr
Texas Women's University
Denton
and Donald A. Hodges
University of North Carolina
Greensboro: Music and Neuroscience

Rezensionen

Written by international experts in their respective research fields, these chapters represent an up-to-date snapshot of key issues in music cognition and development research. John Sloboda, Professor of Psychology, Keele University, and author of The Musical Mind es