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Title Musical beginnings : origins and development of musical competence / edited by Irene Deliege and John Sloboda
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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 MELB  781.11 Del/Mbo  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents prenatal auditory experience / Jean-Pierre Lecanuet -- Musicality in infancy research: biological and cultural origins of early musicality / Hanus Papousek -- Infants auditory sensitivity towards acoustic parameters of speech and music / Christoph Fassbender -- Intuitive parenting: a hidden source of musical stimualtion in infancy / Mechthild Papousek -- The development of the perception of time and temproal regulation of action in infants and children / Viviane Pouthas -- The development of artistic and musical competence / David Hargreaves -- The young performing musician / John Sloboda and Jane Davidson -- Linguistic and musical development in preschool and school-age children / Michel Imberty
Summary From where, and by what mechanisms, does an individual's musical ability originate? Seeking an answer to this question, this study reviews such central issues as prenatal auditory experience and the developmental progress of a child's changing environment
Analysis Music Psychology
Music Psychology
Music Psychology
Notes Simultaneously published in French under title: Naissance et développement du sens musical
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Developmental psychology.
Music -- Psychological aspects.
Musical ability.
Music -- psychology.
Music.
Author Deliège, Irène.
Sloboda, John A.
LC no. 95009599
ISBN 0198523327 paperback
0198523335 hardback
9780198523321 paperback
9780198523338 hardback