Music and the Mind brings together an outstanding, international team of authorities from the fields of music and psychology, to celebrate the life and work of John Sloboda. In addition the book reviews and takes stock of where the field of music psychology stands 25 years after Sloboda's classic work 'The Musical Mind' first appeared.
CONTENTS
Jane Davidson and Irene Deliege: Prelude
John Sloboda and his contribution
1 Michel Imberty: Music, linguistics and cognition
2 Eric Fillenz Clarke: 'What are the important questions?' A reflection
Motivating Musical Lives
3 Susan O'Neill: Developing a young musician's growth mindset: the role of motivation, self-theories and resiliency.
4 Alexandra Lamont: Negotiating Music in the Real World: development, motivation, process and effect
5 Jane Davidson: Musical Participation: Expectations, Experiences and Outcomes
Music and Emotion
6 Alf Gabrielsson: How do Strong Experiences with Music (SEM) relate to experiences in everyday listening to music?
7 Patrik N. Juslin: Music and Emotion: Seven Questions, Seven Answers
Sloboda's Recall Paradigm
8 Mario Baroni, Rossana Dalmonte and Roberto Caterina: Perception of melody. An empirical approach
9 Daniel Muellensiefen and Geraint A. Wiggins: Sloboda's recall paradigm for melodic memory: A new, computational perspective
Musical Achievement and Expertise
10 Frederick A. Seddon: Musical encounters of the temporary kind
11 Antonia Ivaldi: Routes to Adolescent Musical Expertise
12 Reinhard Kopiez: The musical child prodigy (Wunderkind) in music history: A historiometric analysis
13 Adam Ockelford: : Evidence from a Savant of how Atonal Music is Processed in Cognition'
Examining Musical Performance
14 Nicholas J. Cook: Off the record: performance, history, and musical logic
15 Andreas Lehmann: Expressive Variants in the Opening Robert Schumann's Arlequin (from Carnaval, op. 9): 54 Pianists' Interpretations of a Metrical Ambiguity
16 Geoff Luck: Quantifying the beat-inducing properties of conductors' temporal gestures, and conductor-musician synchronization
17 Jane Ginsborg and Roger Chaffin: Performance cues in singing: Evidence from practice and recall
Music and cultural integration
18 Arild Bergh: Emotions in motion: Transforming conflict with the help of music
19 Richard Parncutt and Angelika Dorfer: The role of music in the integration of cultural minorities
Irene Deliege: Postlude