Bamberger, Jeanne - Discovering the musical mind

Following her distinguished earlier career as a concert pianist and later as a music theorist, 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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CONTENTS

Part I: Beginnings
1 Introduction: Where do our questions come from? Where do our answers go?
2 The first invented notations: Designing the Class Piece
3 Children's drawings of simple rhythms: A typology of children's invented notations
4 The typology revisited
Part II: Developing the musical mind
5 Introduction: What develops in music development?
6 Restructuring conceptual intuitions through invented notations: From path-making to map-making
7 Changing musical perception through reflective conversation
8 Cognitive issues in the development of musically gifted children
9 Developing musical structures: Going beyond the Simples
Part III: Designing educational environments
10 Introduction: Designing educational environments
11 Developing a musical ear: A new experiment
12 Action knowledge and symbolic knowledge: The computer as mediator
13 The collaborative invention of meaning: A short history of evolving ideas
14 Noting Time: The Math, Music, and Drumming Project
Part IV Computer as Sandbox
15 Turning music theory on its ear: Do we hear what we see
do we see what we say?
16 The development of intuitive musical understanding: A natural experiment
17 Music as embodied mathematics: A study of a mutually informing affinity
Part V: Summing Up
18 Engaging complexity: Three hearings of a Beethoven Sonata movement
19 Recapitulation and coda