The child as musician : a handbook of musical development

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by  McPherson, Gary E

The Child as Musician
A handbook of musical development

The Child as Musician
A handbook of musical
development
SECOND EDITION
Edited by
Gary E. McPherson
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Acknowledgments
The first draft of each chapter was independently reviewed by the editor and three additional re-
viewers who included a selection of other authors from the book and where relevant, anonymous
external reviewers.
I take this opportunity to thank the various representatives of Oxford University Press. I am
especially grateful to the OUP Senior Commissioning Editor Martin Baum and his assistant
Charlotte Green for answering all of my questions and steering me in the right direction whenever
I had a problem. Their enthusiasm for producing this second edition of The Child as Musician is
appreciated.
Throughout the process of compiling this second edition, I have been fortunate to have worked
with Solange Glasser as my editorial assistant. Her sharp intellect, superb eye for detail, and gener-
ous nature have made the processing of collecting, reviewing, editing, and formatting each of the
chapters so much easier. Solange deserves very special praise for a job well done.
I extend my heartfelt thanks to each of the authors for agreeing to be involved. I am extreme-
ly grateful to them for putting up with the endless correspondence and the many suggestions
from the reviewers. They deserve praise for their commitment to the project and the quality of
their work.
Now that all of the authors can see their chapters in the context of the whole book, I hope that
they will agree that our journey together has been worthwhile. I hope also, that our readers enjoy
the fruits of our labor.
Gary E. McPherson
June 2015

Contents
Introduction xxi
Section 1: Development
1 Prenatal development 3
Richard Parncutt
2 Reflections on infants as musical connoisseurs 31
Sandra E. Trehub and Franziska Degé
3 The child musician’s brain 52
Donald A. Hodges
4 Musicality 67
Susan Hallam
5 Music cognition in childhood 81
Kathleen A. Corrigall and Glenn E. Schellenberg
6 Musical agency 102
Jackie Wiggins
7 The potential impact of autism on musical development 122
Adam Ockelford
Section 2: Engagement
8 Music and nonmusical abilities 149
Glenn E. Schellenberg
9 Musical literacy: Reading traditional clef notation 177
Janet Mills and Gary E. McPherson
10 Musical literacy: Music as language 192
Chris Philpott
11 Engaging in a sound musicianship 208
Andrew R. Brown
12 Underlying mechanisms and processes in the development of emotion
perception in music 221
Emery Schubert and Gary E. McPherson
13 Felt experiences of popular musics 244
David J. Elliott and Marissa Silverman
14 Children, popular music, and identity 265
Sharon G. Davis
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15 The child as music critic 284
Paul Woodford
16 How and why do musical preferences change in childhood and
adolescence? 303
David J. Hargreaves, Adrian C. North, and Mark Tarrant
Section 3: Differences
17 Motivation 325
Paul Evans
18 Building gifts into musical talents 340
Gary E. McPherson and Aaron Williamon
19 Inclusive music classrooms: A universal approach 361
Judith A. Jellison
20 Music and well-being during illness 373
Costanza Preti and Katrina S. McFerran
21 Adolescent music is not problematic 386
Katrina S. McFerran
Section 4: Skills
22 Playing an instrument 401
Gary E. McPherson, Jane W. Davidson, and Paul Evans
23 Building performance confidence 422
Margaret S. Osborne
24 Singing and vocal development 441
Graham F. Welch
25 Musical play 462
Kathryn Marsh and Susan Young
26 The individual and social worlds of children’s musical creativities 485
Pamela Burnard and Hsu-Chan Kuo
27 Computer-based technology 500
Peter R. Webster
Section 5: Contexts
28 Historical perspectives 523
Gordon Cox
29 Child as musical apprentice 538
Frank Abrahams and Daniel Abrahams
30 Global practices 556
Patricia Shehan Campbell
31 Transcultural childhoods 577
Alexandra Kertz-Welzel
CONTENTS ix
32 My voice is important too: Non-formal music experiences and young
people 594
Lee Higgins
33 Transformative music engagement and musical flourishing 606
Susan A. O’Neill
34 The transition from adolescent to adult music learner 626
Jane W. Davidson and Robert Faulkner
35 Fostering lifelong engagement in music 639
Stephanie E. Pitts
Index 655