The Mind behind the Musical Ear: How Children Develop Musical Intelligence

Contents

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• Acknowledgments *
• Introduction The Players * Prologue: The Themes
• Part I : Rhythm * Children's Drawings of Simple Rhythms * Conflicting Hearings of Rhythms: Introducing Met and Mot * A Typology of Rhythm Drawings: Musical and Developmental Implications * Counting and the Metric Hierarchy * Convention, Innovation, and Mu
• Part II : Tune--Building * Building "Hot Cross Buns" with Tuneblocks: Introducing Jeff * Building "Hot Cross Buns" with the Montessori Bells * Making Instructions for Playing "Hot Cross Buns"
• Part III : The Story of Jeff's Development * Jeff's Figural Construction and Notation for "Twinkle" * Jeff in Transition: Constructive Disequilibrium * Moving toward a Formal Representation of "Twinkle" * Met and Mot's Reflections on Jeff's Story *
• Conclusion Educational Implications *
• References *
• Index